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Can we vote for hints?
Authored by: Thom on Oct 09, '02 03:14:13AM

I'm sort of confused.

I was hoping to 'vote' on the 'Kill the dock so Cmd-Tab works with Keyboard Maestro' hint, and give it a 10.

But I guess that isn't what the 'rating' was intended for? I got excited when I saw the little green dots. (Then again, little green dots excite me.)

I mean, you're tracking how many times each hint gets looked at, which is one pretty good indicator of initial interest, but if you added the ability for people to vote (okay, maybe one per registered user, to try and make it more fair/realistic?) then you'd give people an even more informed perspective on how useful the hint was.

An example would be:

"Turn lead into gold!" avg: 2/10 from 9,900 views
"A sleeper hit of a hint!" avg: 9/10 from 20 views

etc

CREATE TABLE user_hint_rating (
user int(11) NOT NULL,
hint int(11) NOT NULL,
rating smallint NOT NULL,
primary key (user, hint)
);

select sum(rating) / count(rating) from user_hint_rating where hint=20021008062540616;
There ya go. :)



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