Rating / Scoring System (Page 1 of 2)

Yes, obviously.

I was wondering how hard it would be to code, or any suggestions on how to implement?

How were you thinking of doing it?  Storing it as a separate column on the posts table or in a complete new table?

Hm... you've got me thinking now... thanks!

I have seen this implemented on a few sites in the form of "karma" and/or "points" (various board platforms) and you have to be careful because users get obsessed with it and will do really stupid things to collect the points even if it has no value at all.

This wouldn't really matter except that depending on the implementation, you can get high server loads while people are trying to maximize their numbers.

Also look out for people that try to get multiple submissions at once via "hammering" the system (in some browsers, IE for one, if you click more than once on a submit form, it will submit more than one time - even if you add in code to disable the button once it is clicked, there are still ways around that as well).

One way to limit the performance and hacking type issues is to limit how many points any one post can have (scale of 1 to 10 or something), or like Slashdot, only give some people karma points some of the time.

The way I see it working, you would only get points if people voted for your post... so you would have to post something intelligible/funny/good to get a high score... sortal like how plastic or slashdot works.  Spamming the board with posts/answers won't get you anywhere (well it might get you banned i guess ).  Over a long period of time, you can see which members do really post quality stuff vs those who just spam the boards to get a high post count.

The only way people might abuse the system is that if a few people colluded and started giving 10s to each other.

My main interest for this mod would be for my digital photograpy forums, where people can post photos... other people can rate the photos to show how much they appreciate the photo.  Sure, they can post replies and comments etc, but sometimes it doesn't quite convey the impact...

Just my 2c

if it is given to moderator or admin, then its okay, if the choice is given to users/guests, even for the good answers they may be lazy to vote. so i suggest only the moderator / admin / the one posted the post should be able to vote. not all others...

i think the whole point of this is just to rate posts by users (sorta like a poll on each post) not to rank users etc and not really for admins/moderators but for users to show their views to each other easily

i'm wondering, this needs to be neat so what if it was just a bar (eg a table using one of the css colours) with a + at one side and a - at the other the table has a line in the middle all posts start at the line and move to either side e.g. 2 plus votes and 1 minus vote would put it halfway between the middle and the plus side, this makes it simple and not serious enough to cause people attempting to cheat etc, dunno what you think, i dunno where this would go i'm thinking either on the bottom of the post near report etc or maing a new bar at the top of each post

i must maked as an Option

ok, i'm having a go at making this as a mod, the first version is gonna be messy and not very good but i hope to show the idea of it first then i'll have a go at getting it up to punbb standards (btw i am new to php and have never made a mod before)

well once i have made it (nearly done now just got a few stupid errors to fix) i'll setup a test board and make it so guests can vote and you can suggest if its a good voting system, i am going for simplicty here