If you can provide a 5 star rating system once, then why can't you provide more than one? Why can't you have a rating on the quality of the artwork of the piece AND the quality of the download? Perhaps one also for the stability across platforms such as the stable versions and the nightly? I buy stuff from Ebay and in their rating system, which is pretty basic, they have their feedback set up so that you can give a 5 star rating on the speed of delivery, how well the seller kept in touch, how accurate the description of the item was, etc... and at the bottom, there is a box where you get to write any further comments related to rating the seller. Could we not have something set up like that? It would be separate from the comments section that is currently there. I think that something like that would indeed keep the area self regulating because you could set it up so that only registered members could vote and also only one vote per member. When a threshold number of votes saying the item doesn't work is reached, then the item is either automatically purged, or a notification is sent automatically to the author of the item telling them that it has been flagged. You'd have to have a threshold in order to weed out those who simply didn't know how to use it, or downloaded it wrong.
This makes a lot of sense. In order for the repos to self-regulate, it must be possible for users to provide more fine-grained feedback.
Further, I think I have now figured out how to be able to allow for more than one material per asset post, but I don't want to experiment via 4G on tablet.
Downside of this is that the changes aren't compatible with the current repo structure. I'll have to port stuff once there is a new structure. So I'd like to be sure the new structure is sound before making the switch.
So, what fields should there be for assets (I'm primarily talking clothes/hair now) ?
Uploader editable:
Name
Description
License
Category
(Material fields)
Community editable (any logged in user can add/edit)
Is broken (yes/no) + one line reason
Mesh quality
Mateial quality
Overall usefulness
Keywords (possible to add new ones or select fom list)
Any other suggestions?