Yesterday after an extensive staff discussion, WoWInterface removed the rating system from the addons portion of the site. It has come to our attention that over the course of the past few years, people have tried to "game" the ratings system by having their friends visit the site to rate up a mod, or to launch a "rate down" attack against a particular addon or author. Clearly this sort of behavior is unacceptable and of no benefit to the addon community. In addition authors and users alike have reported that the concept of a subjective rating on addons is confusing in the long run.
We would like to hear your suggestions about a rating system (or something similar) that would be more beneficial to the users and authors of WoWInterface.com. Obviously the favorites system still exists, but as always that is meant for convenience and not as a competition. Some questions to start the discussion:
- Does a ratings system help the community promote new and exciting mods, or does it just turn everyone into BorgUI 4.3?
- Would a positive system that only allowed users to flag a mod upwards be beneficial, or would it require too much administration/policing to prevent someone from launching a "ZOMG PROMOTE MY MOD111!1" campaign?
- How else can we work to spread the news about the exciting user interfaces that are available on WoWInterface other than the current methods which show the top favorites, new addons, top downloads, our addon spotlight on the addons tab and our weekly picks, etc.?
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