On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Rosanne DiMesio <dime...@earthlink.net>wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:12:33 +0200 > Yaron Shahrabani <sh.ya...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I see but I had another idea in mind... > > I was thinking about having the possibility to rate and report but > without > > any way to comment, I mean that you cannot comment in foreign languages > but > > you can vote and report (any operation that requires clicking is OK, > typing > > is not). > > > It's not possible to report without typing, and ratings without the typed > information as to why the user gave the app that rating would be at best > useless (Why is this silver? What doesn't work?), and at worst misleading. > "False platinums" in particular are already a big problem: users give an app > a platinum rating, but list tweaks they applied (so it really should be > gold) or things that didn't work (so it really should be silver). Admins and > maintainers need that typed information to assess whether a rating is > correct. > I fully understand, so reporting is way complicated without typing... Well its just a thought but maybe we should consider simplifying the whole process, maybe this way more data will be collected. Kind regards, Yaron Shahrabani. > > -- > Rosanne DiMesio <dime...@earthlink.net> > > >