I was doing some work on my site and figured these might be ideas that others might like -maybe a future feature or mod.
I give awards on my site. Currently I manually check out submissions and award based on if they meet certain minimum requirements. This is pretty labor intensive so I thought it would be a good thing to automate and lots of people offer awards. Here are my general thoughts....the award could be based on some formula of user clickthroughs, rating and votes. To make it more functional this would require a more detailed rating option. Say allow rating based on a few parameters. Some type of form with option buttons allowing rating of up to say 5 key items (which the administrator could choose)
1.Site Easy to Navigate
2.Original Code Items
3.Cool Downloads
4.Updated Frequently
5.Original Tutorials
Then allow the administrator to set an 'importance' value for each that would total up to 100% i.e.
Item1=10
Item2=25
Item3=25
Item4=25
Item5=15
This would allow for a more realistic rating system configurable by the Links adminstrator. Then this rating system could be used factoring in clickthroughs, votes etc to come up with some value. The 'award' script could then automatically qualify sites for the award based on the numbers i.e
Site1 award_total=96 Gold Award
Site2 award_total=67 Silver Award
The ideal thing -I'm dreaming a little- would be for this to
1)add an award icon next to the sites link and/or or place them on an award winners or 'must see' page.
2)email the winner with a link to the page where they can pick up their award and instructions on how to add it to their page.
This not only automates a tiresome process of reviewing sites but also is a great way to generate traffic as the awards would be linked to your site.
It might be a good idea to also have a 'nominate' button and require that a certain amount of nominations be recieved. This way you can only allow one nomination per IP per x amount of days or whatever to put one more road block up for sites that would try to stuff the ballot box.
The more detailed rating would allow a 'significant' award. An award just based on traffic is not really a good indicator in itself of site excellence. I guess this might also allow displaying of a more detailed rating showing the different scores making up the total.
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[This message has been edited by Burt (edited May 12, 2000).]
I give awards on my site. Currently I manually check out submissions and award based on if they meet certain minimum requirements. This is pretty labor intensive so I thought it would be a good thing to automate and lots of people offer awards. Here are my general thoughts....the award could be based on some formula of user clickthroughs, rating and votes. To make it more functional this would require a more detailed rating option. Say allow rating based on a few parameters. Some type of form with option buttons allowing rating of up to say 5 key items (which the administrator could choose)
1.Site Easy to Navigate
2.Original Code Items
3.Cool Downloads
4.Updated Frequently
5.Original Tutorials
Then allow the administrator to set an 'importance' value for each that would total up to 100% i.e.
Item1=10
Item2=25
Item3=25
Item4=25
Item5=15
This would allow for a more realistic rating system configurable by the Links adminstrator. Then this rating system could be used factoring in clickthroughs, votes etc to come up with some value. The 'award' script could then automatically qualify sites for the award based on the numbers i.e
Site1 award_total=96 Gold Award
Site2 award_total=67 Silver Award
The ideal thing -I'm dreaming a little- would be for this to
1)add an award icon next to the sites link and/or or place them on an award winners or 'must see' page.
2)email the winner with a link to the page where they can pick up their award and instructions on how to add it to their page.
This not only automates a tiresome process of reviewing sites but also is a great way to generate traffic as the awards would be linked to your site.
It might be a good idea to also have a 'nominate' button and require that a certain amount of nominations be recieved. This way you can only allow one nomination per IP per x amount of days or whatever to put one more road block up for sites that would try to stuff the ballot box.
The more detailed rating would allow a 'significant' award. An award just based on traffic is not really a good indicator in itself of site excellence. I guess this might also allow displaying of a more detailed rating showing the different scores making up the total.
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[This message has been edited by Burt (edited May 12, 2000).]