I recently stripped out star rating (fivestar module) and vote to promote (vote up/down module) on the Konigi site. I made the decision based on my feeling that star ratings can just add irrelevant noise if doesn't give anything back to the user. Making recommendations to view more content, for instance, based on what you've rated is interesting. I don't know if anyone's done a good job of that using Drupal. What's your opinion?
As Steve says, "core" view count isn't going to help. Especially since it all comes down to SEO -- over time, the vast majority of traffic will go straight to a permalink based on search phrases, which I deem "dumb traffic".
A karma / points system where people have to spend to rate something might be more significant.
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04/02/08 @ 21:38
I recently stripped out star rating (fivestar module) and vote to promote (vote up/down module) on the Konigi site. I made the decision based on my feeling that star ratings can just add irrelevant noise if doesn't give anything back to the user. Making recommendations to view more content, for instance, based on what you've rated is interesting. I don't know if anyone's done a good job of that using Drupal. What's your opinion?
04/02/08 @ 22:43
View count for popularity, star rating for quality/interestingness.
04/03/08 @ 00:45
kind of a loaded question ;)
star rating doesn't have anything to do with popularity... maybe number of ratings?
04/03/08 @ 01:22
drupal's core statistic.module needs some love if view count is really going to matter.
you could sit on a page and click refresh and the count will just go up.
04/03/08 @ 03:54
As Steve says, "core" view count isn't going to help. Especially since it all comes down to SEO -- over time, the vast majority of traffic will go straight to a permalink based on search phrases, which I deem "dumb traffic".
A karma / points system where people have to spend to rate something might be more significant.
04/03/08 @ 04:15
I quite like the idea of the Radioactivity Module... In fact I'm dying to try it out!
04/03/08 @ 08:02
In response to comment, #3, you're right it's a matter of quality vs. quantity. What if the question were about vote/up down points vs. views?
04/03/08 @ 08:11
THIS POLL HAS BEEN CLOSED.
Please vote on this one instead.