How to make sure users can leave ratings for links?

Not at this time. Today, ratings can only be given by administrators. I plan to add support for users to be able to give ratings through the site down the road, but we are not there yet.

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Perfect;
I was already thinking of making a purchase of a possible pro version, so maybe to help you in the development, but also to have a little help on your part to create a nice page dedicated to the links that I will enter in the coming weeks.
I will certainly proceed with a donation in a few days as I will work on the Link Library plugin, first I have to fix more of my website.
I have to prioritize other settings to be made on the website.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by fabgan.

I too would like to allow users to rank links, and have each category sorted with highest ranked at the top. How large a donation would it take to see that feature in a few months?

In thinking a bit more about this, a 1-5 ranking wouldn’t work well to reflect votes from many users. A sum of total ranks, say allowing each user to assign a number between -5 and 5 for each link, and then rank the links by the total of all. Maybe allow admin to skew things a bit by having a wider range of vote values.

Ratings are definitely the most requested feature for Link Library, but I also feel like it’s the type of feature that most users will have diverging opinions on, thus being a bit of a headache to implement.

From what I can see, some users want to see a rating-based system as you are proposing, while others would like to see a upvote / downvote type system, similar to reddit or stackexchange. While the first person in this thread was talking about a straight 1-5 star system, what you are talking sounds more like an upvote/downvote/rating hybrid to be able to assign a negative star rating to even further lower a link’s rating.

Some other topics that come to mind when it comes to ratings as well are whether only registered users should be allowed to rate, or all users. If all users, then does the plugin need to start tracking IP addressed of users to avoid repeat voters, but that could easily be tricked. Should users also be able to change their vote over time?

Once a decent number of users have chimed in, it will be easier to start working on this feature with confidence. Having a better definition of the feature would also help me get a better idea of the time involved, thus being able to indicate better a donation goal to reach to push this along.

For my purposes allowing only registered users to be allowed to rate would be preferred. I don’t want trolls messing up the utility of the voting for my subscribers. I don’t charge for membership, so anyone can vote who wants to, but at least I’ll know their email address.

Having any kind of upvote / downvote type system is important to me as I hope my link library will grow larger than I can curate myself. Aside from blocking any user who decides to spam the library with ad links, I’d just as soon not have to devote a lot of time to maintaining the library once related categories are established.
A five star rating would be fine. I prefer that over a single up/down vote as I’d like folks to be able to express how strongly they feel about an up or down vote. Stars are a bit confusing though, as how few stars constitute a down vote? Does a link with three 1 star ratings rank higher than a link with no votes at all? Having positive and negative points removes that ambiguity. If using five stars, I’d define a three star rating as neutral, with 1 and 2 stars being the worst, and bad respectively. That way a link with an average of a 3 star rating would be roughly equal to one with no votes, maybe slightly higher as it got some attention.

On reviewing my last post, it occurred to me that the ability to flag a link as spam would be great too. That way subscribers, or moderators can remove bogus submitted links with out the admin getting involved.

Oh, if we’re defining design features, the option to order links by ranking is essential to me. Right now the order appears random.