Scratch

IF STAR RATINGS EXISTED:
There should be categories, like this: (Sorry, @'s are stars, and I know these are bad; there just examples)
Originality @@@@@
Music @@@@@
Interface @@@@@
Ease of use @@@@@

Maybe 3-5 in total (IF THEY EXISTED)?

Using cloud data you could program your own ratings system.

Molybdenum wrote:

Wes64 wrote:

Using cloud data you could program your own ratings system.

Yes. I wonder who will be the first to make a "cloud data star rating" add-on for a project?
But it will be annoying to change a lot of my lists to cloud lists.

I plan to make them for my projects.

Ivaash wrote:

Restrict the ratings to positive numbers and zero, in which case people wouldn't be as demotivated.

That wont work, changing the window of the rating system will not change anything.

Example: If its 1-5 stars, it looks bad to have 1 star.

If its 3-5 stars, it looks bad to have 3 stars.

If its -5 to 5 stars, it looks bad to have -5 stars.

Bump

I do think it's a good idea, but I also think you should need to leave a comment/feedback with a rating, perhaps with a minimum characters, that'd make spotting spammers easy. I don't think an all positive system is a good idea anyway because if you tell someone who's doing something wrong they're going well, they just keep doing it.

While there is the argument that new scratchers could be discouraged, people can comment negatively anyway, and maybe only full scratchers should get star ratings.

A form of currency? Go look in the requests forum, I bet you 1/3 of the post there has "do it and I'll love it 3 of your projects", if anything, the fact "love its" are additive makes the currency idea worse.

Wes64 wrote:

zammer990 wrote:

I don't think an all positive system is a good idea anyway because if you tell someone who's doing something wrong they're going well, they just keep doing it.

That's not the point of Scratch. You can't expect everybody to create projects that appeal to everyone... People here are just learning to program, and encouragement is key.

True, but if someone doesn't like a project, it won't get viewed, and I think that's worse than being told you could do better.

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Yes, it is clear it will never be implemented because it might hurt someone's feelings blah blah blah