Voting UI to show similar / dislike comments side by side
We want to add a comment / feedback feature to our website plugin gallery so that users can vote up / down on a particular plugin and leave an optional short comment about what they liked or disliked.
I'm looking for inspiration, ideally a good implementation elsewhere on the web that doesn't annoy end users, can't be difficult to develop, and that allows users to see both good and bad comments, to the side, for example:
Like: 57 votes Dislike: 8 votes
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"great plugin, saved me hours..." "hard to install"
"works well on MacOS and Ubuntu" "Broken on Windows Vista with
UAC enabled"
"integrates well with version 3.2"
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Does anyone know of a site that does something like this particularly well? I don't need any source code (since the implementation will be simple), just looking for inspiration and better interface examples.
I agree with the answer that links to a site which, in my biased opinion, is the best combination of usefulness (for end users reading comments) and addictive (for heavy users leaving comments).
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Amazon does something similar - when you post customer reviews, they list the most helpful positive and negative reviews at the top, before listing the rest. For instance:
To do this, the community needs the ability to mark a review as helpful or unhelpful, which may be more than you want to implement. I love your idea, though - rather than sorting through a large list of reviews, I like to see a quick snapshot of what people like or dislike about something, even if either opinion is relatively rare.
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You can check this book for algorithms:
- Collective Intelligence in Action , Satnam Alag, Manning, 2008, ISBN 1933988312
- Smart Grid Algorithms , Haralambos Marmanis, Manning 2009, ISBN 1933988665
- Collective Intelligence Programming: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications , Toby Segaran, O'Reilly Media 2007, ISBN 0596529325
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Just found my post while looking for ideas for my app and I think that's what YouTube is so fond of. You have buttons and don't like it, and your current selection is displayed on the click of a button. so with just two icons you can see what your current selection is and make it really obvious how to change it.
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