Barry Warsaw wrote: > I personally think a ratings system can be useful, but you should be > able to opt-out of it if you want. Or just write such awesome software > that the bogus bad reviews will be buried by an avalanche of kudos.
One of the problems I have with online rating/comment systems for software are I see them as inherently biased. Happy users are more likely to be busy coding, unhappy users are more likely to be frustrated and looking for somewhere to vent. If the package author can't even *respond* to mistaken or misguided comments then the review system is fundamentally broken. Better not to have one at all - let people vent on their own blogs and other sites, and let potential users let Google do its thing (and if Google turns up nothing, then that in itself is a data point). Regards, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
