Qyot27 wrote:Well, amongst forum users, I think the ego stroking would be voted down. But once you move out to the rest of the site's population, all bets are off.
I'd argue just the opposite. Forum users are largely editors, the ones with the most to gain from circling up, and the ones who'd mostly be interested in rating thier own ops, the ops of their friends, and the ops of their rivals. Their impact on a new op system would be no greater than their impact on the current one - probably not much. Once you get to the main site, you're dealing mainly with non-editors, the ones whose main purpose here is to watch and review vids and the ones who'd be most interested in rating the ops other people leave on the vids they watch. There will be people on and off the forum who abuse the system, but no worse that what we already have. With any and all feedback being an endangered species at the moment, I'd think a little risk-of-abuse would be worth creating renewed interest in leaving feedback here on the org. This idea would serve the people already disposed to leave feedback, engaging them, renewing interest and giving them more reason to leave ops of their own.
The real problem with this idea is that it would change the main purpose of ops. Right now ops are for the editors, and only those 'outsiders' who leave their own ops get to read them all. If they were made public, ops would serve the viewers and potential viewers, and other editors, and anyone interested in writing ops of their own. They'd be reviews subject to approval or disapproval, available to anyone interested in reading them, rather than private exchanges between a single viewer and the creator of that vid. Right now the editors on the forum are pushing to allow disabling of ops, to make them so private that even those who review the vids can't see what others have written. They're moving toward a point where instead of ops, people have to PM the creator in order to leave any feedback so that no one else will ever see what those viewers wrote to that creator. They'd never go along with anything that will make their ops viewable and useful (and interesting/engaging) to people other than themselves.