2be opened this issue on Feb 07, 2006 ยท 6 posts
Corum_Anime posted Wed, 08 February 2006 at 10:36 AM
I'm not sure how you're going to sort them. I understand that right now it might be lumping all the products with 5 star ratings together and showing them first in whatever order they show up in, thats cool for now. It sounds like you're going to sort the rating numbers and show the top product as the one with the numerically highest number of 5 star ratings, ignoring lower ratings, until all the 5 star rated ones are shown, then do 4 etc. Of course this keeps the most popular products at the top of the list, but doesn't it also give the older products an advantage too? Suppose 1000 people buy "Green Texture for Daz Frog" and they all rate it 5 stars. Suppose after that, everyone else rates it 0, or nobody else buys it and the market declines a bit, and no other products get 1000 five star ratings for the next year. "Green Texture for Daz Frog" would remain #1 in Whats Hot right until it was moved to the warehouse. The other thing I'm not sure about, is what if something has more 5 star ratings, but the average rating is lower? See this list as an example: "Green Texture for Daz Frog": 5 5 5 4 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 "Sitting Pose for P4 Cat": 5 4 4 3 3 2 "100 new grey backgrounds": 5 4 4 4 So.. whats the "hottest" product? Of course the Frog wins, but see, half the people who bought it didn't like it. Not trying to make new problems, I started by trying to clarify the system for 2be, but then I realised I didn't understand it, so I made some examples and I don't know how you're going to judge it. In practice I'm sure it'll work great, and the Whats Hot list will have stunning stuff in it. I'm just very good at logic and I can see where something might go wrong. Its a cool feature and so long as the Whats Hot shows products that a lot of people liked, it'll work. I still hope you keep working on the normal search. I'd love to be able to list what base products I own in my profile, and when I search, have a tickbox that let me choose to filter out anything I can't use out of the box. I spent all day yesterday going through every page of Vicky3 stuff, obviously most of it is textures for stuff I don't have etc. Take Care, Corum.