Outwitters Map Creator 1.2

[Harti]

First off, thanks for your very detailed feedback. I really appreciate it!

(02-05-2013 08:03 AM)CombatEX Wrote:  Ideally I would use a rating system similar to IMDB which weighs ratings given by a user scaled based on their average rating. As you might imagine, this makes things a lot more fair. Someone who hate rates a lot might have an average given rating of 1/5. This would make a 1 star rating from them actually be a 3 star rating and a 2 star rating from them actually more like a 4 star rating. Conversely, someone who rates everyone extremely generously may have a 4 star average rating. In turn, a 4 star rating from this individual would be worth 3 stars, a 4.5 star rating might only be worth 4 stars, and a 2 star rating perhaps 1 star. Obviously this is a lot more work though so I don't expect you to do this.

This is quite intriguing. There is an issue to this, though, namely I would like to avoid storing user-based data as much as possible.
I could implement this suggestion (probably in another way, though, because I don't think that a hate-rater's rating should be worth 4 stars at all. Ignoring ratings from obvious hate-raters seems more like the way to go; or using statistical tools to determine outliers and make these stand out less) by forcing people to create user profiles to interact with the page. However, this would drastically decrease the already low amount of activity, both in terms of people rating maps as well as people creating maps.

Quote:Perhaps instead you could implement a link to PM the map creator at OML? I don't know how difficult this would be, but I have a feeling it wouldn't be too much of a stretch (since you ask people to use their forum name).

I don't have a good feeling about requiring people to enter their user ID. This usually comes with a long description how to retrieve it by looking at the URL, and some people on the Internet unfortunately still don't know what an URL is. This is sad but true. Anyway, I haven't found a way to display a forum profile by providing a name in the URL, I've only seen it work with an actual user ID.

If I only knew more about this forum's software, I would probably already have developed a plugin that automatically made outwitters://... copypastes actual clickable URLs, for instance, or I would know how to make such a call to get the userID by username from the OMC script. But alas I don't.