Comments should be mandatory if you want to gove a rating. Comments themself should be given a 'rate'. Go to amazon.com, citysearch.com, epinions.com... and see every review has a relevance tagged by people reading the review. That's very efficient and helps alot sorting through the crap (and fake reveiws)
That way, anybody leaving a (1,1) rating with comment like 'I don't like it' will hit a relevance score (or call it a helpfulness value) of 0. Can even summarize average comment score on user area pages so you can see who give helpful (or not) comments.
I know, it involves programming and change in the database. I know photo.net has no money, no time, no nothing...
Changes to Rating System
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Comments should be mandatory if you want to gove a rating. Comments themself should be given a 'rate'. Go to amazon.com, citysearch.com, epinions.com... and see every review has a relevance tagged by people reading the review. That's very efficient and helps alot sorting through the crap (and fake reveiws)
That way, anybody leaving a (1,1) rating with comment like 'I don't like it' will hit a relevance score (or call it a helpfulness value) of 0. Can even summarize average comment score on user area pages so you can see who give helpful (or not) comments.
I know, it involves programming and change in the database. I know photo.net has no money, no time, no nothing...
Just my $0.02