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Post by
Thror
Ack. Comments suddenly went invisible. y u disappear comments.
Post by
Tuppence
Another minor issue: on the main guides list, clicking to sort by rating is a bit wonky.
The sorting on the first click should be descending - you're way more likely to want good ratings first.
More importantly, the little direction triangle is the wrong way round - it should point down for descending and up for ascending, surely?
Lastly, is that some sort of weird ratings weight added for guides with lots of votes? Currently, if I put it to descending order, it shows a 4/5 guide with 30 votes before all the others.
It
also
shows guides with no rating yet as second -
and
more guides with no rating yet at the bottom. They should all be at the bottom, I would think.
Another thing: many sites that work on user votes highlight items that haven't received enough votes yet to be rated - maybe some incentive could be given to rating new guides, or at least some way to highlight those still to be rated?
Post by
Thror
A few of those notes are explained in this topic. Check the first post.
Post by
Interest
Did you guys approve my guide before it was finished? It has views...
(Never mind, it's still a draft and I guess the views are mine/mod views?)
Post by
Tuppence
A few of those notes are explained in this topic. Check the first post.
So it is, pardon me.
The rest of that particular point stands, though - I've updated my post.
Post by
Koper
The sorting on the first click should be descending - you're way more likely to want good ratings first.
It's ascending because they are - by default - already ordered by votes, descending. So if you click it it will inverse the sorting, as usual.
More importantly, the little direction triangle is the wrong way round - it should point down for descending and up for ascending, surely?
Yeah, that's probably right
Lastly, is that some sort of weird ratings weight added for guides with lots of votes? Currently, if I put it to descending order, it shows a 4/5 guide with 30 votes before all the others. It also shows guides with no rating yet as second -
and
more guides with no rating yet at the bottom. They should all be at the bottom, I would think.
First of all, all the ratings you see have already been weighted so what I said in the first post is irrelevant to your question. Guides' ratings have much more precision than is shown; for example, a guide can have a rating of 4.710254645844 while another a rating of 4.625870985; both will display 4.5 but for sorting the "more precise" rating is used, so the one with 4.7 will show up before the one with 4.6
Second, sticky guides always appear before other guides. Guides that have the "NEW" icon always appear before other not-new guides in the same category,
except
if the author of the guide is "Wowhead": in that case they appear at the bottom. This exception was useful when we had tons of unrated guides from "Wowhead" but now it's largely useless and confusing and will be soon removed.
Another thing: many sites that work on user votes highlight items that haven't received enough votes yet to be rated - maybe some incentive could be given to rating new guides, or at least some way to highlight those still to be rated?
This is already done. Guides with not enough votes have the NEW icon and appear at the top.(##RESPBREAK##)2##DELIM##Koper##DELIM##
Post by
Caperon
@Coldkil:
Yeah, ill be writing a pvp guide though it'll take me atleast 2 weeks (1 more week till im home and then i still have to help the dispel guide aswell).
What do you suggest?
Just linking the guides or actually creating cross-links?
Post by
Tuppence
Thanks for the responses - and apologies for my accusations of errors - I understand it all a bit better now. Glad I got one of them right, though!
Edit: Another minor point - my newly submitted guide,
Shannox 10-man Normal
, is obviously without votes and flagged as new. But on my guides list, it doesn't stay at the top in either type of sorting, instead it stays around the middle and is listed as having a 4/5 rating. It obviously doesn't matter much - why would us finding our own guides be important - but it tickles my curiosity bone nonetheless.
Edit2: Oh, it just changed - the guide is now sorted and unrated like the others.
Post by
Azazel
Thanks all you mods out there for making the last fixes while I was gone!
Post by
Coldkil
@Coldkil:
Yeah, ill be writing a pvp guide though it'll take me atleast 2 weeks (1 more week till im home and then i still have to help the dispel guide aswell).
What do you suggest?
Just linking the guides or actually creating cross-links?
Linking the guides will be the baseline, but after you have completed yours, we can work on what else could be useful.
Post by
Caperon
Aight, ill try to work on it asap (though im still scrolling through a few ideas for the guide, mostly formatting - though a bit more advanced).
Post by
Koper
The patch in
http://www.wowhead.com/guides
is now green if the guide is up to date. This will make it easier to identify which ones are up to date.
Post by
683852
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
Koper
- Comments made in guides now show up correctly in /user pages
- A list of guides written by the user now shows up in /user pages
Post by
683852
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
ArgentSun
Table of Contents
Is created by typing...
Table of Contents
Post by
Koper
Talent Specialisations
Post by
asakawa
Sharing my precious secrets!
@Canidae, tags like are mostly for getting lovely database info and displaying it in the forum, in blog entries, articles and now guides. What would the code be replaced with if those tags existed? I suppose in the case of the guides it could be replaced by the title but then some are quite long and it's still not a big increase in ease-of-use over \.(##RESPBREAK##)8##DELIM##asakawa##DELIM##
Post by
683852
This post was from a user who has deleted their account.
Post by
Koper
I'll try to get the upload failed error fixed today.
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