The new gnome-software application

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 09:13:21AM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> We *really* don't want people to create a new account and login just
> to rate something. Users should just be able to open the software
> application, click an app, and click the star rating widget to choose
> 1 to 5 stars. Anything else is going to kill usability. 

Apple does it. I don't think it's terrible to sell being able to vote as a
benefit of having an account. The quality of the votes will be significantly
better when they come from engaged users, too.

As an aside, when making calcuations based on the votes, please always
weight as if there is one vote right in the middle. That way, a single
5-star vote doesn't jump the app above one with six 5-star votes and a
4-star vote.

> Limiting things to one vote per IP per application seems to be a good
> compromise to avoid people gaming the stats.

I don't think this is reasonable in the 21st century. People move around so
much that the restriction doesn't buy all that much, bots can easily use
multiple IPs, and on the other side, many people go through NAT and appear
to share an address.

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