On Saturday, 24 January 2009 10:25 AM, The Editor <[email protected]> wrote: >For what it's worth, I think a person should be able to go back and >change their level of support as needed. Suppose someone tries a >recipe and for some reason it doesn't work. So they give it a bad >rating, appropriately. Then the developer figures out where the bug is >and fixes it. Now everything works beautifully. They should be able to >turn their support from a 1 to a 5 (or reword their comment). Probably >a lot of recipe's start out ok, but get better as fixes and >enhancements are added. The ratings could be misleading if half the >ratings are from an earlier defective version. > >No easy solution, but something to think about.
I agree and take this argument further. It's hard to imagine that anybody intentionally releases a poor quality recipe. Some, such as complex skins, take a lot of feedback to get right. So if somebody signs up as a friend/supporter/endorser of a recipe, and gives it a low rating, then that person has an obligation/duty to the recipe maintainer(s) to review the rating from time to time. One could go so far as to say that if one gives a bad rating, one ought also to give the maintainers feedback so it can be improved. In my case, rather than give a recipe a bad rating, I would contact the maintainers and ask about the problem. Giving it a bad rating doesn't help make it better. > >Cheers, >Dan > JR -- John Rankin Affinity Limited T 64 4 495 3737 F 64 4 473 7991 021 RANKIN [email protected] www.affinity.co.nz _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
