Post by Adam Schmelzle on Jan 4, 2008 18:48:27 GMT -5
Hello all!
I have been working on the 'user-comments' features of my site today, and it's just about ready to go live. Since it's Friday however, don't expect me to get back to work on it until Monday. It should only be another couple hours worth of effort to get it working the way I want.
Here's what my user comments do...
As mentioned, the user ratings are only used in displaying the posts at the moment. I will however keep track of the total ratings posted for each game, so that we can rank games based on your ratings, instead of just the number of times the games are played per person.
When this goes live, I'm going to have to watch it carefully, because I don't want this to be overwhelmed by spam-bots. I have a few ideas for preventing bot posting, but I'm gonna go live without it first.
I have been working on the 'user-comments' features of my site today, and it's just about ready to go live. Since it's Friday however, don't expect me to get back to work on it until Monday. It should only be another couple hours worth of effort to get it working the way I want.
Here's what my user comments do...
- Users can post comments from any part of the site
- If the user posts a comment from a 'publisher' page, the comment contains a link to that publisher for everyone else!
- If the user posts a comment from a 'game' page, the comment will contain a link directly to that game for everyone else reading the comment. It also has the mini-image with the game comment
- If the user posts a comment from any other part of the site, it is simply a 'site' comment, and does not contain any links
- Each post displays the flag for the user's country! It's just a niftly little icon beside the username
- You can chose to fill in a 'screen name' when you post a comment, but it's not needed
- You can chose a rating from 0 to 100% when you post a comment, to give others an idea of how much you like whatever it is. In the future I'll be saving all the user ratings, and let visitors sort games / publishers based on user ratings.
- When you are viewing a 'game', you will see the most recent user comments about that specific game
- When you are viewing a 'publisher', you will see the most recent comments for that particular publisher
- On any other part of the site, you see the 10 most recent user-comments for the entire system
As mentioned, the user ratings are only used in displaying the posts at the moment. I will however keep track of the total ratings posted for each game, so that we can rank games based on your ratings, instead of just the number of times the games are played per person.
When this goes live, I'm going to have to watch it carefully, because I don't want this to be overwhelmed by spam-bots. I have a few ideas for preventing bot posting, but I'm gonna go live without it first.