I quite like CPAN Ratings, and find that most of the ratings are useful. That there is some junk in there is no reason to kill it off.
An improvement would be to turn it into a forum, maybe merge with CPAN forums but keeping reviews separate from technical support questions. (Bad reviews such as "how do I compile module X" can be moved into technical support forums too.) Reviews that are voted as useless can be culled by moderators. Rob A. Pagaltzis wrote: > This sort of thing is lunacy. What's the point of MODULE REVIEWS > if they're going to be turned into crusade vehicles? > > I am writing to this list instead of responding in a no-rating > review over there precisely because that would be abuse of the > system – of course, that means the visibility of my response is > much smaller than that of Adam's ill-considered vigilantism.
