[uf-discuss] hreview-aggregate -- votes vs reviews

[Kavi Goel]

Tantek, thanks for reviewing the hreview-aggregate draft.

Per your suggestion, I've added several examples of sites that have
separate counts for the number of ratings/votes and the number of
reviews. The examples are here:
http://microformats.org/wiki/aggregate-review-examples#Ratings_without_reviews_examples

And to re-iterate the problem and proposal -- it's valuable to be able
to differentiate between the number of reviews on a page vs the number
of votes that contribute towards an average rating. For example, a
page with 4 reviews is much more interesting than a page with 4 votes
and 0 reviews. We'd like to extend the hreview-aggregate schema to
include some method of differentiating these two different counts. The
proposal is to add a new property called "votes"; more details are
here:
http://microformats.org/wiki/aggregate-review-brainstorming#Reviews_vs_ratings

As before I'm happy to hear feedback on the proposal or any alternatives.

Kavi

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Tantek Çelik <tantek at cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Kavi Goel <kavi at google.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have replaced the stub page for hReview-aggregate with a draft spec
> > describing the microformat that was decided on early this year.
> ...
> > http://microformats.org/wiki/hreview-aggregate
>
>
> Hi Kavi, I've reviewed the hreview-aggregate page and it is an
> excellent first draft.
>
> Thanks very much for writing this up.
>
>
> > I have also updated the brainstorming page with a proposal to address
> > one of the issues raised -- that users can leave a rating without
> > writing a review. The current hreview-aggregate draft has a single
> > property called "count" that is used to specify the number of reviews
> > for a particular product or service. However, many sites have some
> > number of votes (where users specify a numerical rating or a thumbs
> > up/thumbs down vote) contributing to an average rating and a smaller
> > number of full user reviews.
> >
> > The brainstorming page is here:
> > http://microformats.org/wiki/aggregate-review-brainstorming
>
> Do you have documentation of real-world examples of sites that
> separately publish number of votes/ratings and reviews?
>
> We should collect URLs to those examples in the
> aggregate-review-examples page to make sure we are
> modeling/brainstorming/proposing something that is designed
> specifically for what is actually published today.
>
> http://microformats.org/wiki/aggregate-review-examples
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tantek
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