Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] A couple of points on the state of linux audio apps
From: Stéphane Rollandin (hepta_AT_infonie.fr)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 08:00:11 EET
hello,
a few ideas about ratings:
I think a form for optional comments is critical.
Commented ratings could be considered as more important (weighted) than
uncommented ones.
Ratings older than 2 (or 1 ?) years could be just forgotten altogether.
The ratings should just be displayed along with all other information
relative to a given app, not used either to sort the apps, do a top 50 nor
anything else that would make people look only for highly-rated apps.
Otherwise we get a vicious circle and interesting but non-mainstream
programs can quickly go into oblivion due to poor ratings.
just my 0.02 euros
Stef
At 03:12 26/02/02, you wrote:
> > 4) How to establish input for user ratings, reviews, suggestions, etc.
>
>Ratings are tricky. The easiest way would simply be a radiobutton form:
>rate this app 1 to 10. But that's not very informative. I'm wide
>open to suggestions here. Here's an example of a site that I think
> has a pretty decent
>user review system (for musical gear):
>http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/Data/Sovtek/Mig_50-01.html
>
>There's a few categories, and you just give it a 1-10 rating in each
>category; then the total shows average and number of responses.
>
>So we'd need to decide on good categories for audio software. I can
>think of:
>
>Features
>Sound quality
>Stability
>Ease of use
>
>There's one other problem that I can see with ratings. Software (hopefully)
>evolves. So a rating from 2 years ago may be totally worthless. I'm wondering
>if it would be practical to give weighting to the ratings, such that more
>recent responses count for more points.
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