Skimming through the other works already registered, I noticed some
things that might need addressed. Overall, I think the registry is a great
idea and it's appears to be put together well...just have a few comments (if
I'm commenting on anything that's been hashed out before, feel free to slap
me, I'm coming in late, as it were):
Disclaimer: None of the below should be taken as an attack on a particular
person or work. I'm not going to mention anyone's name or their work, just
point out the types of things I think should be different. :)
I noticed someone "self-reviewed" their own work and set all the
ratings to ten. I don't have a problem with that in of itself (one should
always get a good vote from yourself!) but it might be a good thing for the
self-review be "automatic" rated at some pre-determined amount so we don't
have some works self-reviewed/rated and some not, thus skewing the ratings.
What I think would be better is allow non-rated comments to be added and ask
that the (work owner?) refrain from rating their own works. If we're going
to have a numerical rating, it's not going to be meaningful if it's watered
down by entries. Fairly impossible to "enforce", I imagine, but something
we could ask for on an honor basis.
Another work that is registered but not yet published received a
negatively rated (all 1's) review commenting "Where is this work to be
downloaded" and of course, the owner of the work responded that it wasn't
published yet. Both of these comments also will skew the ratings (one was
all 5's and one was all 1's! Ouch!) for that work. Again, the option to
make "not rated" comments would be nice. :)
Something I think we'll want when we start getting "many" works in
the registry is some way to query/filter the list of works by various
categories or systems. For example, I may want to do a query for D20-based
Fantasy works only, all non-D20 works, etc. etc. :).
I recently compiled a list for myself of D20 products (focusing on
"commercial" ones like Creature Collection) and came up with over 60 items
released/planned from August 2000 to June 2001. I imagine some of those may
get canceled, but I suspect the general trend will be more and more, rather
than less and less. So it could rapidly become too difficult (I'm guessing
by the end of the year) to find a particular work to review or to find
reviews of.
Brad, overall, I think the registry is great! :)
Feaelin
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