Currently LCPDFR uses a 5 star review system which greatly limits control over scoring files and causes many people to get upset when a file is rated 3 stars or less despite this being the "average" score. I propose that instead of this 5 star system, we move to a 10 star system which would increase the "average" score from 3 to 5, and also allow users to rate files more fairly than just 5/5ing or 1/5ing everything as there's more room to score.

Another idea would be to add a half star system, which would allow users to vote 3.5 stars if they so choose rather than just 3 stars if the file was above average but not "great", etc etc.

Edited July 19, 20169 yr by Illusionyary

I agree with this.

I like this idea also.

And question, why can't DEV files be rated?

54 minutes ago, 0taku said:

And question, why can't DEV files be rated?

^^^ This is something that's annoyed me for a while. It should be the same as any other modification.

You're asking for 6 of one and half a dozen of the other here.

I don't think changing the review system will have any effect, especially considering a review is entirely subjective to the individual. People will just get pissy that they only got 5 stars out of 10 the same with 3 of 5.

It's impossible for anyone here to say what is a fair rating either, so moving to 10 stars won't improve the ability to rate fairly. 6 stars might be fair to one person but unfair to another.

Just my two cents worth.

1 hour ago, LukeD said:

You're asking for 6 of one and half a dozen of the other here.

I don't think changing the review system will have any effect, especially considering a review is entirely subjective to the individual. People will just get pissy that they only got 5 stars out of 10 the same with 3 of 5.

It's impossible for anyone here to say what is a fair rating either, so moving to 10 stars won't improve the ability to rate fairly. 6 stars might be fair to one person but unfair to another.

Just my two cents worth.

i agree with both your points here, but i think leaving the system makes sense if a new system wouldn't have any benefits

7 hours ago, 0taku said:

I like this idea also.

And question, why can't DEV files be rated?

*shrug*

I can't think of a moderation reason, so it's probably a misconfiguration that was never brought to my attention.

9 hours ago, Illusionyary said:

Currently LCPDFR uses a 5 star review system which greatly limits control over scoring files and causes many people to get upset when a file is rated 3 stars or less despite this being the "average" score. I propose that instead of this 5 star system, we move to a 10 star system which would increase the "average" score from 3 to 5, and also allow users to rate files more fairly than just 5/5ing or 1/5ing everything as there's more room to score.

Another idea would be to add a half star system, which would allow users to vote 3.5 stars if they so choose rather than just 3 stars if the file was above average but not "great", etc etc.

thats not going to change anything, itl be the same review with a different ratio.

one thing that i do miss though, is the ability for the author to respond to reviews. too many times people leave a review where they shouldve left a comment. and we can t respond to said review.

4 hours ago, LukeD said:

It's impossible for anyone here to say what is a fair rating either, so moving to 10 stars won't improve the ability to rate fairly. 6 stars might be fair to one person but unfair to another.

For people who do the 10/10 already, it wouldn't affect much. I just feel a /5 rating isn't much of a review being there's so much detail being put into these modifications nowadays. Especially in vehicles which takes up probably 85% of LCPDFR's downloads. Maybe they'd just need to be aware of what a higher rating system would mean. I usually just get 5/5 all the time and I know there are things that I can probably improve. If not that, I'd bet on a half star system. Which technically can be like a 10 star system, but counting halves and what not. I think that would be quite efficient. There are a lot of modifications out there that I'd rate 2/5, yet 2/5 seeming very low of a rating. Yet the modification isn't very suited for a 3/5. That's my input.

9 hours ago, LukeD said:

I don't think changing the review system will have any effect, especially considering a review is entirely subjective to the individual. People will just get pissy that they only got 5 stars out of 10 the same with 3 of 5.

It's impossible for anyone here to say what is a fair rating either, so moving to 10 stars won't improve the ability to rate fairly. 6 stars might be fair to one person but unfair to another.

Then what about the half star system instead? The whole idea behind this thread was to increase the room for scoring files, and I believe that even a half star system would work better than what we currently have. Files with small issues could be voted 4.5/5 and files above average could 3.5/5 etc