Hi, on Medium there is this claps plugin that allows registered readers of an article to vote the article up or down by giving ‘claps’. Is there a similar plugin available for Discourse?
Aren’t claps just another word for votes? If so wouldn’t the topic voting plugin work here?
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It’s actually related to compensation too I understand.
Isn’t the combination of Likes & Top list good enough?
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The claps features on Medium is much more flexible than just likes because it gives you the opportunity to award any article with any number between 0 and 40 claps as opposed to just one single ‘like’. In addition you can also down vote articles which you can’t with the like function.
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Medium help says you can clap between 0 and 50 times, but don’t mention downvotes anywhere. Where do you see downvotes on the UI?
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The multiple voting thing is so, so weird!
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Double weird because
When ranking stories, our system will evaluate claps users give out on an individual basis, assessing their applause for a particular post relative to the number of claps they typically give.
So in the end it just becomes equivalent to a star rating system. If you gives one clap for what you like and 2 for what you love, and I do the same but with 25 claps for like and 50 claps for love my 50 clicks is the same as you 2. I’m just wasting 48 clicks/taps.
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Why is it weird? When you score an article you should have the opportunity to select from a range of 1 to a certain number as is the case with other systems such as exams or tests where your performance is scored rather than just liked by one vote per person.
That’s a very personal opinion, but I don’t think there’s a need for more than 5 points to rate an article, or a movie/game etc.
When we see rating like 67%… I always wonder, why 67? Why not 65 or 70?
A 5 stars notation is more straightforward, even if the results are always biased (almost never 2, always a bunch of 1 and 4-5).
Anyway, if you’re looking for topic ratings, there’s this plugin:
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And even Netflix did away with 5 star ratings!
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But I thought that the move from 5-stars was based on two factors that aren’t relevant to this topic:
- Netflix had to use a different mechanism because they had a problem with their 5-star rating.
- They had ruined 5-star rating because the Netflix used them to rate personalised recommendations for each viewer account whereas most Neflix users thought that it was the same 5-star rating method used elsewhere,i.e. the aggregate / average of all reviewer scores.
Also, I totally agree that claps should not be a core feature because it has limited application so it should be an optional plug-in.
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