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| Posted: Friday, January 2, 2009 at
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Is there a way to rate the courses to download, i know we can put in comments etc.. but it would be helpful to have a ratings scale something simple like marks out of 10 and have this show in the search area. That way people could search courses by ratings and find the best of the best easily.
(if this is already available please ignore me, however i can't find it if it is ) |
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| Posted: Friday, January 2, 2009 at
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The course ratings are there , but the designer can turn it off.
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| Posted: Friday, January 2, 2009 at
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| i have just seen them but can't seem to find a "search by" for them |
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| Posted: Friday, January 2, 2009 at
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| edited by: JSJarvis on
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You cannot search by Course Ratings. That feature is not one that will be offered on this site. If we were to offer it, people would begin padding their ratings just to be on top, thus making the ratings more worthless than they already are. For a long time, we didnt offer ratings at all for this very reason. What is a 5 star course to one person may be a 2 star to another.
This topic was just recently asked about here:
http://www.coursedownloads.net/forum/posts.asp?post=6501 |
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| Posted: Friday, January 2, 2009 at
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I agree with the ratings being useless, and it seems like lately everyone who puts up a new course, automatically gets a 4star rating to start with?
Maybe if you had to also make a comment when you rate a course? I will turn mine off for now.
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| Posted: Friday, January 2, 2009 at
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| Or have it where the designer can't rate their own course. |
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| Posted: Friday, January 2, 2009 at
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| wow...thats a can of worms i didn't mean to open |
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| Posted: Friday, January 2, 2009 at
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| Like I suggested elsewhere, rating could be linked to commenting so if one wanted to rate a course one would have to comment also. |
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| Posted: Friday, January 2, 2009 at
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I cant prevent architects from rating their own courses. I can stop their user id from rating a course I can stop their IP from rating but that doesn't stop them from registering a new account under a new IP address. AND yes some do go to those extents to give a 5 star rating.
Adding comments:
Been brought up a few times and each time I strike that one dead, The staff knows who rated a course and what they rated it, if the designers knew, NOT ALL bust some would send a message to a member who gave their course a one with a lot of nasty words. Old timers around here will know this quote "Well how many courses have you designed...." Now imagine a designer who really thought a course was worth a one, because their design standards are higher than the architect who designed the course, course might be a 5 to someone else. The architect sees this architect gave his course a one and goes and rates all of their courses a one as well. Then after that it gets better they start arguing about it in the forum. Then to top it all off they say I'm done and both architects quit designing courses because their egos are smashed.
Rating creative works is hard, if anyone has ever been to a art gallery, you know what I mean. Ive seen paintings I thought were the ugliest thing on planet earth sell for 10's of thousands of dollars, and then others I thought were magnificent get sold for 10 bux. Just like this site their are courses I think are awesome with low ratings and others I think could have had some more time spent on them have high ratings. SO I do what everyone should do I rate the courses how I see them. |
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| Posted: Friday, January 2, 2009 at
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| edited by: axe360 on
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Well, designers being able to rate their own courses might explain how some, get a 4star rating right out of the gate.
No biggy to me.
I really dont care what the rating is, I will still download a course to check it out for myself.
Unless of course their are to many libs or to many older libs, which still is a big factor to me.
Oh and screenies I think, are a very good way to help sell your courses.
I concur with Mich, after reading his post about having to comment if you rate a course, could be trouble their.
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| Posted: Friday, January 2, 2009 at
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Well said TBM and Axe. I would not recommend downloading courses based on rating or comments, but screenshots are a terrific way to decide what and what not to download. I think the only problem with the rating system is exactly what you were saying, that being the designers who use several accounts to rate their courses. I am not sure that this even happens but the possibility is there. I would like to think we are all better than this, but who knows.
Regardless, this is, has been, and will be the best place to go to download courses :) |
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