How to get rating (stars) input from users?

[Rick W. Chen]

Tue, 25 May, 2010 at 07:19:03 PM +1000, Seb Ruiz:
> On 25 May 2010 19:15, Sven Krohlas <sven at asbest-online.de> wrote:
> > Heya,
> >
> > an interesting patch showed up in Bugzilla:
> >   https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238736
> >
> > This caused some discussion on irc.
> >
> > My opinion: the user can only see stars and half stars, so
> > the intuitive unit to get rating info would be in stars:
> > halb a star, one star, one and a half star,...
> >
> > Currently if you want to search for one and a half star
> > rated tracks in the collection browser you have to use
> > "rating=3", with this patch "rating=1.5".
> >
> > So imho this is a very valid point and improves usability.
> > I would encourage the autor to change the behaviour in
> > other places, too, to make it consistent.
> 
> Absolutely, there is nothing worse than inconsistency in a user
> experience. Just like I rate my songs with 1-5 in the global
> shortcuts, the collection browser should filter out of 5 also.

I agree also.

-- 
    Rick