KeenWiki - rating system for mods

Cobalt · Post by **Cobalt** » Fri Oct 11, 2013 18:30

I gave Szemi's mods 5 stars.

StupidBunny · Post by **StupidBunny** » Fri Oct 11, 2013 18:32

I don't think we should think of it as rating for the articles at all. Nobody looking for mods to play is interested in how good the articles are, and nobody who's made a mod wants a rating that reflects only how good the article for it is. By that logic we should have ratings for every page.

Post by **tulip** » Sat Oct 12, 2013 15:25

I don't think anybody was discussing "article ratings". Just that the system was borrowed there.

Malvineous · Post by **Malvineous** » Sat Oct 12, 2013 23:10

I'm still working on the presentation style for this - I don't like the way it lists the ratings (it doesn't look very good) so I'm working on some new code to allow the appearance to be customised.

In the meantime, you can see a list of ratings which is supposed to show the top rated pages, but seems to be in random order so I'm not sure what's going on there.

I hope it won't be too much longer until I get the most recommended mods onto the front page.

And Szemi, since the ratings are for players new to Keen mods, maybe yours only got one star because they're hard and better aimed at Keen experts instead

szemi · Post by **szemi** » Sat Oct 12, 2013 23:15

Malvineous wrote: And Szemi, since the ratings are for players new to Keen mods, maybe yours only got one star because they're hard and better aimed at Keen experts instead

You know, some people say my levels are easy, some say hard. Cannot decide whether I should make levels or not.

NY00123 · Post by **NY00123** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 7:51

This notion has made me think that it could encourage modders/level makers/... to make their modifications less challenging than they currently are on average.

I guess it is one of these "for" and "against" topics again. Well, at least for modifications of Keen 4-6 and Dreams, it can be good to let the chosen difficulty tell everything. With simple patching, difficulty names can further be renamed if one desired. I actually applied that once... to some non-Keen level pack. (It can be found in these forums since it is powered by a variant of the Galaxy engine. Not telling much more than that as it's off-topic.)

Paramultart · Post by **Paramultart** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 17:14

The Keen Wiki won't let me vote. Whenever I try to give Szemi five stars, the voting icons simply disappear. When I refresh the page, my vote did not register. I have tried this on two different computers now.

Malvineous · Post by **Malvineous** » Sun Oct 13, 2013 22:50

Have you tried in a different browser? I didn't write the code so I'm not sure how it works but it is JavaScript based, so you'll need JS enabled in your browser for it to work.

Post by **tulip** » Wed Oct 16, 2013 14:14

Is voting maybe only possible when you are logged in? I'm not sure if that could be a problem.

StupidBunny · Post by **StupidBunny** » Wed Oct 16, 2013 17:47

tulip wrote:Is voting maybe only possible when you are logged in? I'm not sure if that could be a problem.

I had this problem when I first tried voting. See if you're logged in or not.

Paramultart · Post by **Paramultart** » Wed Oct 16, 2013 18:05

ah, I see. You do have to log in to vote; GOOD!

Cobalt · Post by **Cobalt** » Wed Oct 16, 2013 18:43

How will I ever vote for my own future mods more than once when the rating system has a glitch like that???

Post by **Flaose** » Tue Nov 05, 2013 15:16

Nice repurposing of a different rating system! Is there an easy way to get the ratings to show up in a column on the mod list pages?

Malvineous · Post by **Malvineous** » Thu Nov 07, 2013 10:36

Not at present but I'm hoping to come up with something for this. I just hope it doesn't slow the page down so much it takes forever to load!