in reply to Mystified by perlratings

If most CPAN users are like me, they use a large number of modules, but hardly ever rate any of them. I can't speak for anyone else, but I simply don't consider myself a good review writer. As such, it doesn't even occur to me to write a review.

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Re^2: Mystified by perlratings
by throop (Chaplain) on Dec 20, 2006 at 16:36 UTC
    It's a chicken || egg problem. If I find cpanratings.perl.org to be useful, then I'm willing to contribute. But if I can't use what's already there... Why would I contribute to a project that doesn't strike me as useful? If I'm in the habit of checking out cpanratings before I use a module, then I'll probably put in a review of the last module I used.

    The overall usefulness of the tool would be improved by being able to filter and sort - e.g. showing only results that have ratings.

    throop

      You might contribute also out of idealism, e.g. because you have the strong belief that it will be useful one day. I guess that's the fuel on which every site runs after bootstrapping, then for a while. If after the initial idealism there's no broader acceptance, then either there's something fundamentally wrong about some impotant bits of it, or it's just not needed.

      (I wish I would have been here when perlmonks did bootstrap - I still wonder about how they (you) managed to give this site a going. Is it the Everything Engine? the idea of combining a newsgroup-like thing with posting (node) reputation and personal XP? Is it that you were just so smart people, and high quality coders? all together, I think.)

      --shmem

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Re^2: Mystified by perlratings
by bart (Canon) on Dec 21, 2006 at 11:52 UTC
    When I install a new module, I may think there are several implementation issues wrong with it, but I still won't write it down in a review on CPAN-ratings, well, because they stick. The review and rating (stars) would still be there after the author fixed it, and I don't like that thought. Why would a later release get fewer stars, because of issues in an older version?