Posts Tagged ‘rating’

• Fri, Oct 29 2010

  Rating, Schmating

  By jess at 12:32 pm

  Starting today, there will no longer be rating for Industrial Design, Naming, Tagline, Logo, and other non-evaluation projects.

  This change will go into effect after the Product 61 naming project closes out.

  You will still be able to rate ideas in Product Evaluation phase — and you’re encouraged to!

  There are a couple of reasons why we’re making this change for non-eval projects:

  - As many of you have told us (quite loudly!) rating for these projects was a major time-suck, especially as the number of submissions continues to grow.

  - Because fewer people were rating, we weren’t receiving as much useful, conclusive data.

  - We want you to be able to focus your efforts on finding and pushing forward the best names and taglines through your votes.

  That’s all, folks! Feel free to hit us back with questions and comments on our community-powered support forum powered by Get Satisfaction.

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• Tue, Jun 8 2010

  Rate Ideas, Earn Influence!

  By jess at 6:39 pm

  You know those rating scales next to each idea submission?

  

  Yeah, those ones.

  It’s about time you gave these little red buttons some major attention. Starting last round, community members are able to earn a small amount of influence by rating ideas. The more you rate, the more you earn! But please, do the ideators a favor and put some thought into your ratings, kay? They take your feedback very seriously.

  Coming up next… comment influence! Stay tuned for an announcement.

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• Tue, Mar 2 2010

  Community Tips For Voting And Rating

  By jess at 5:06 pm

  We receive our fair share of feedback on ways to improve our voting and rating system. We’re looking at ways to improve this process, but as you can probably tell, we have a million projects on the pipeline! We ask you to be patient, and in the meantime, read this helpful community forum post by Quirkster Clinton Fleener on his method of filtering, rating, and voting on ideas:

  I’ve seen a couple of ways Quirksters keep track of the ideas they like (especially when there are hundreds of submissions for name or tagline, etc.).

  I will always leave a comment on the ideas I like. Then I later review just the ideas I liked (well, plus other ideas I commented suggestions to though I didn’t especially like the idea) by selecting “my commented on”. The downside is that this is kinda a misuse of the comment function – I think that comments are best used for sharing ideas.

  

  Another way people keep track is to only rate the ideas they like. Then they later review just the ideas they liked by selecting “my rated”. The downside is that this is kinda a misuse of the rating function – Quirky uses the ratings along with the votes to help them decide which idea to use (so I always rate all the ideas).

  

  These methods are certainly not as good as something like a “like” function. But they might help you keep track of ideas until a “like” function is available.

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