Beta Appstore Testing (Again)
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craigix said:
I would go for a "thumbs up/thumbs down" system (like the current one on YouTube), as rating system with too many possible selections is mostly contra-productive. Most people will usually select a very high value (if they like it) or a very low value, in the 5-star system 2 and 3 stars don't get selected very often contrary to 5 or 1 stars.
A percentage system will only make things worse.
When you only have two possible selections, it's easy for a user to make up his mind (do I like it or not) and vote. A more complex system will mostly scare away users as they don't exactly know what to choose (it's like when you are in a candy store and the assortment is that big you don't know what to choose).
You might be able to get a more detailed rating with a percentage- or star-based-system, but usually that's not needed anyway (That's what the user reviews or external reviews are for).
A simple X out of Y people like this will be enough for people to decide whether to download an app.
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Trip
Sorry, but I suck at explaining stuff :P
I prefer the marks out of 100 myself; unless the star rating system allows half points then that would be fine. Just 5 stars doesn't give enough choice in a marking system IMO.
Sugar_Kane
Could crush a grape
Craig's percent system is fine, do we really need a debate about it?
Trip
Sorry, but I suck at explaining stuff :P
Of course. You've been on this forum long enough to know that by now. For shame <_<Sugar_Kane said:
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Mithrildor
I Haz Custom Title
I like a percentage system displayed by stars. Like quarter of a star, half a star 20% of a star
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Trevsweb
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Mithrildor said:
speaking as the graphicteer i say hell no
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TitanUranus
Active Member
You could have a 10 stars system. 5 gold stars preceeded by five brown stars. If you want to convey that something is totally shite you'd vote it a whole 5 brown stars.
Wrath Of Khan
Soul soother...
I like the 80,s style percentage system.Always preferred that to an "out of ten scale"etc.
Sphinxter
Says What?
Sugar_Kane said:
He's right, there should be a poll.
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Mithrildor
I Haz Custom Title
Trevsweb said:Mithrildor said:
speaking as the graphicteer i say hell no
Ive seen this on xbox live
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Trevsweb
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Mithrildor said:Trevsweb said:Mithrildor said:
speaking as the graphicteer i say hell no
Ive seen this on xbox live
lol pay me xbox live graphicteer wage and ill make 1% stars
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dflemstr
It's a ball.
You can just use two images: one of a filled star and one of an empty star. You can then do:Trevsweb said:Mithrildor said:Trevsweb said:Mithrildor said:
speaking as the graphicteer i say hell no
Ive seen this on xbox live
lol pay me xbox live graphicteer wage and ill make 1% stars
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<div style="background-image: url(empty-star.png); width: 16px; height: 16px;">
<div style="background-image: url(full-star.png); width: 41.278739879%; height: 100%;"></div>
</div>Voilà, arbitrary precision star filling. You'd put most of the stuff in the style attributes above in an external css file of course (all except the width) and depending on the rest of the page, you might not wanna use "div"'s but I think I got my point across at least.
You can of course also use a jQuery star widget, like I do for my Box webapp.
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TitanUranus
Active Member
Alex. said:
There might be a certain amount of inverse pride and kudos in gaining a full set of brown stars, whereas recieveing a bog standard single gold star might just be life crushingly depressing. Besides, if we follow the logic of what you're saying are we to never give a genuine appraisal of software in case it offends the creator? Bottom line is crap is crap, and a crap score is a crap score whether it's measured in 5 turd stained ringpieces or a single shiny gold star. At least you might be able to claim "I created the world's shittest application/game" with my system.
You have deeply offended me by casting aspersions on a suggestion I offered to you for free and which I made in my spare time - give yourself a 4 turds out of 5 rating.
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gruso
thunderbox
People who charge money for games deserve to be told if it's crap. People who make something for their own enjoyment and release it for free, do not.
TitanUranus
Active Member
Gruso said:
Right then, why don't we make it a 5 star system, where the only option in 5 full stars. We wouldn't want anyone to give anyone anything less than full marks now would we, it might hurt their feelings and that would be bad.
I wasn't suggesting sending hate mail to people and targeting them for some kind of vigelante beating for releasing something crap, I just think there's no harm in letting them know it has not lived up to whatever standards we imagine it could. In any rating some things will be marked on the lower end of the scale. Don't you understand the point that 1 out of 5 stars means that something is shite - fullstop. On the other hand 5 sticky marmite brown stars would mean it's actually achieved a level of shiteness worthy of being marked out as something special, maybe even making it noteworthy.
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gruso
thunderbox
For the record, I don't think there shouldn't be a rating system at all. That's another conversation that's been had many times before though, and I don't want to fill this (beta testing) thread with the debate.
jaycee900
Gamer Since 1980
What about after you click to download a file you have a choice to return to the page you were on or choice of /sub folder or homepage options...instead of using your back button?
