Hey guys hope all is going great!
I was wondering if anyone has suggested adding more rating features like this:
( I know the like & rate post have been implemented )
If not could these addition items be created? maybe like in a drop down selection?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers!
The big question is how complex does it get? For example… do you just keep a count of ‘clicks’ on each item on each post? Do you keep the user names of people who made the clicks? If so do you need to display them? Do you need to stop users from clicking multiple times which means you DO have to maintain more complex data?
Yellow Swordfish said
The big question is how complex does it get? For example… do you just keep a count of ‘clicks’ on each item on each post? Do you keep the user names of people who made the clicks? If so do you need to display them? Do you need to stop users from clicking multiple times which means you DO have to maintain more complex data?
Here is a Example mock-up that I did with my image software.
The ratings can be for each user post, but the user can only click on 1 rating per post or remove it.
I cant really go into to much ideas as I don’t know the full capability of Simplepress nor would want to clutter up each post lol. I did a hover over method with count next to each rating.
So yes – you’d like them counted and you only want to allow any given user to rate once per post and you also now want them to be able to change their mind! 
The UI is the easy bit! It is the rest of it that takes the time, planning, design and testing etc. I am not saying it is hard to do – just that it is more complex than it looksl
Yellow Swordfish said
So yes – you’d like them counted and you only want to allow any given user to rate once per post and you also now want them to be able to change their mind!
The UI is the easy bit! It is the rest of it that takes the time, planning, design and testing etc. I am not saying it is hard to do – just that it is more complex than it looksl
Yes indeed, Ahh I am sure its very tough to code or test. I have done a bit with phpbb and other forum software. Can be a real pain lol.
So if its possible I would contribute to the means of having it done.Also the part that shows the list of users should only be 4 and then maybe a pagenation list underneath for see all users who rated.
Thanks for your reply!
A real ratings plugin that allows you to upvote/downvote a user would be great. All popular forums use this as an important part of their software. The likes/dislike is something that I would suggest improving and modifying it to upvote/downvote. Tie it in with the ratings button and people can up/down vote to cause someone to lose/gain points/stars. I would add to the thanks plugin and add a second button that a user can unthank (whatever you want to call it) the user’s post. Tie that in with the ratings as well. I have been asked for this so many times that I just say the ubiquitous “Soon”.
@lithu you are suggesting more of user rating pluign vice a post rating plugin… you can already vote up or down the post itself…
we are considering a kharma or user rating type of plugin that would take in bunch of things..
the OP was proposing a more broad type of rating… also to be discussed…
just time
Mr Papa said
@lithu you are suggesting more of user rating pluign vice a post rating plugin… you can already vote up or down the post itself…we are considering a kharma or user rating type of plugin that would take in bunch of things..
the OP was proposing a more broad type of rating… also to be discussed…
just time
If you could add a user rating plugin, where we can edit some of the fields or add custom fields, that would be great! It’s something that I get asked non-stop about.