On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:16 PM,
Rosanne DiMesio
<dimesio@earthlink.net>
wrote:
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:12:33 +0200
> 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.