Rating / Download System Suggestions

[FerrariMan]

I had a few ideas for fairness of cars' or tracks' rating and promotions:

Rating - I love the current rating system, but I feel like I need some more numbers to work with here... could we possibly try a */10 system? Or to make it cleaner, allow users to select "4.5" as a rating? This would be helpful for me, because I do often need something between 4/5 and 5/5 to rate things with
And the other thing, I did realize that authors can rate their own work, maybe that should be disallowed
downloads- if the same IP that uploaded the car downloads it, maybe downloads shouldn't be counted. I know NFSCars has had this problem with a certain car... PM me for the one.

[Roadstar]

I dont mind about 5 star rating if it still remains. Whereas I also agree that authors should not be allowed to rate their work.

[FerrariMan]

Okay
You don't ever feel the need to rate something 4.5?
alright j/k ... how does anyone else think about this?

[XJ220]

I like all of the suggestions you've made. More precision is always good (ten star rating) Not being allowed to rate your own stuff makes a lot of sense, so does not counting an author downloading his own work (whatever the reasons are)

[FerrariMan]

Thanks, glad you support my ideas

[Remko]

There used to be a 1 to 10 rating system here until a couple of years ago. It didn't work with stars, you just picked a number from a drop-down list.
The stars were introduced during one of the more recent re-styles, I don't exactly remember when.

[Freak-DS]

10/10 stars for this idea!

[FerrariMan]

Thanks Freak-DS

[Mike]

Hmmm.... I'll see what I can do about adding half-ratings.

As Remko mentioned, there used to be a 1-10 drop down selection, but I changed it to stars to make the site more modern and with the times

I'll update this when I come up with something

[Mike]

Oh, and as for people gaming the downloads/ratings... the author can only rate their car once, so that's not a big deal. If more people rated things, and there were more than 2-3 ratings per car, I'd be inclined to disallow author/uploader from rating their own stuff. But with such low numbers, I'll take as many votes as I can get


I haven't seen any issues with letting the uploader count as a download, but if it becomes a problem I'll look into it.

[XJ220]

Especially when vote-numbers are low the author's single vote heavily influences the rating

Perhaps it'd be possible to add the number of votes next to the rating itself?

[FerrariMan]

not a bad idea

[Mike]

Alright.... I tweaked the ratings system, but haven't put it online just yet.

You can beta test it by changing the URL for any car. Right now, you'll see "/cars/XXXX" in the URL of a car info page. change that to cars2, and the new ratings will be there.

But note, that the numbers will be off. for example:
http://www.nfsaddons.com/nfshs/cars2/Jaguar/1819/

That one, you'll see it says "Rated 9/10" but there are only 2 stars. I need to adjust the DB to account for the new ratings (rated out of 10 instead of 5)... so ignore that and let me know what you think/if you find bugs

[XJ220]

Looks very good to me, good job!

[FerrariMan]

Wow, Mike, thanks a lot for implementing that!
It looks awesome and I look forward to using it

EDIT: All seems to work, except for the XJR100. 5.8 / 5?!  on the regular scale. Not that your car doesn't deserve that, NJ xD

Hey mike does this work for tracks/tools yet? if not will it?