- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Gods Prophet
I see where you're coming from on this idea, but i think ultimately it's pointless for several reasons:
* People will more often than not deliberately vote maliciously low, or knowingly highly praise it.
* Founders may threaten to boot or lower security roles of members who give it a low rating.*
* Never judge a book by its cover. The rating can be flawed if you really want to know what a chapter is like (kind of like some polls that are made).
* People will no doubt judge a chapter on different things than others have. For example, someone may be judging it on its forum, where as someone else on its resources and another on all components thus subsequently giving us a very flawed result.
*Perhaps then we hide it from the admin so they don't know how people voted? Nu uh. I think having parts of a chapter hidden to its admin is bad and this is surely be complained about.
Those are valid points and I will try to give a solution for each.
* That happens in all the Forums, but hey, if they give us a karma system that works, I'm sure they can give us a rating system for the groups as well.
* Don't show what people voted. Just have it be like the polls. (This percent voted 4, this percent voted 3 etc.)
* Those who judge a group solely on the rating probably don't care too much. This would just be a way to help you find a group. After that, you can ask questions and do a little research if you are skeptical.
* Perhaps, but I think the majority of the people will be judging based on the forum and the activity level. I have never heard of someone advertising a group by saying, "Join this group! It has great resources!"