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    Anonymous star based rating/score for fics

    Have you seen the proliferation of military science fiction, space opera and fantasy lately? Both in size AND number of titles? (EDIT: something like 200k(SF&F) with self publishing and digital only editions according to google. Also according to google something like 4-6 million books are...
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    Anonymous star based rating/score for fics

    There are ways to mitigate that problem, like showing alongside or just using the median instead of the average, or combining the mean and the median and dividing by two.And use ceil rather than floor when you output the numbers. And only showing a rating after, say, 10 or more people have rated...
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    Anonymous star based rating/score for fics

    When I decide what to read, usually utilizing goodreads or Amazon to do so I generally look at. Do I absolutely hate the writer for some reason and have them blacklsited? Genre. Score. Number of people who scored and read the book. User that bought/read this also bought/read and enjoyed stuff I...
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    Anonymous star based rating/score for fics

    People's time is valuable. Thread size, number of replies and word count alone do not entice you into reading something, having a ratings system and being able to see how many people found this a masterpiece, mid level or bad on the other hand is a concrete, fast metric. This approach has...
  5. NumberSix

    Anonymous star based rating/score for fics

    Rating systems add all sorts of benefits. They provide faster and easier feedback for readers and let potential readers proritize longer works.
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    Anonymous star based rating/score for fics

    A simple toggle can let the OP enable/disable voting, as I proposed above. One more if/else statement to populate the table. Trivial addition compared to the rest. But now that you mentioned it, those add-ons all do let you have alternate forms of these and it would be lovely to have a...
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    Anonymous star based rating/score for fics

    Any user who has at least a few dozen posts and whose account is older than say a year? And considering the fact thet this xf should use an MVC design pattern and appears highly extensible the actual backend code should not be more than a few dozen lines, with the ORM for the extra table...
  8. NumberSix

    (Partially) fixing the tag system

    There are paid extensions for xenforo that permit advance tagging and grouping. Also, nothing is stopping whoever maintains this place from writing their own version or paying somebody to do so.
  9. NumberSix

    Anonymous star based rating/score for fics

    It will have to come from a logged in user. And maybe it should display who rated it, but not what the rating was. Some safeguards could also be added, like fresh or "inexperienced" accounts not getting to vote. And blocking people who the OP blocks from adding to the score. I view it as a...
  10. NumberSix

    General chat thread

    bits of meat, chicken or pork skewered alongside onion and pepper then cooked right over the embers of a small wood in the open, right under an open clear summer sky. 🥰 Perfection.
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    (Partially) fixing the tag system

    A lot of people are likely more familiar with the former than the latter. ZnT didn't get much of a release in the west, only the first and maybe the second season were translated, none of the LNs or the game(s) were translated officially. And Zero no Tsukaima is less of a tongue twister...
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    Anonymous star based rating/score for fics

    It will be nice if there is some mechanism to give a fic a score rather than just like the OP/subsequent posts/follow.
  13. NumberSix

    Soliciting style requests

    Modify the style or add a theme like a version of the dark one that removes the dead space on the opposite left and the right. I am too lazy to hunt for it in the CSS and overwrite it with greeasemonkey or a custom style loader and even f I wasn't that still means making sure to proliferate...
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    (Partially) fixing the tag system

    I did suggest zero no tsukaima earlier actually. ;) if aliases are an option it should be znt.
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    (Partially) fixing the tag system

    I am deeply skeptical of any updates x,y,z times advertisements. And I am more interested in story quality than in story update speed.
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