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RE: [phoenix-epic-dev] bogus rankings on EPIC
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I, in no way see this as an Instantiations issue. It is very
unfortunate that the example Mik forward might make it seem that way
but I don't think it was the intention.
The explicit mention of Instantiations made it look that way.
We have no interest in playing any rating games. If we did, our
flagship CodePro AnalytiX product would be ranked a lot higher than
it is (currently 54th) and have a great many more votes (currently
52). ;-) In fact, we have lots of products on EPiC and only
WindowBuilder is in the top ten list (through no fault of our
own...the Chinese just love us!). :-) I think WB has more votes than
all of our other products combined (by a fairly wide margin).
I think there are a couple of things that we need to resolve: 1)
what is our policy for handling these individual requests, 2) do we
believe this is a legitimate voting and who makes the decision
How about setting up a moderator / grievance group that would review
each case? That group could then remove one or more votes from an IP
address. Even eBay has a procedure to get truly bogus rating removed.
How often do complaints like this actually come in?
3) is there a way to restrict this type of voting in the future.
Some of the ideas that were discussed earlier would certainly have
this effect in general. In the specific case of this IP address (with
votes spread out over a very long time), I don't know whether any of
those ideas would have helped.
I would prefer we don't just delete the votes from this specific
incident, since I don't think it solves the real issue.
On a case by case basis, I don't have any problem with deleting
votes. There probably should be some way for this to happen in
extreme cases (just as with eBay). Whether this would even qualify as
an extreme case or not, I don't know.
BTW, why not add a feature to EPiC to allow someone to remove their
own votes (if I recall, the 2Y site allows this)? If you visited
EPiC, you could click on a button to see all of the votes from your
IP address and delete one or more of them.
-Eric Clayberg
Sr. Vice President of Product Development
Instantiations, Inc.
mailto:clayberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.instantiations.com
http://www.windowbuilderpro.com
Author: "Eclipse: Building Commercial Quality Plug-ins"
http://www.awprofessional.com/title/032142672X
