Comments on: Post Ratings by Outbrain

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Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:34:28 +0000

[...] be able to rate the posts on my blog on a five star scale. You might have seen it implemented on several blogs. The only thing stopping me at the moment are reasons technical and time [...]

By: Kestrel

Kestrel — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:24:58 +0000

Hmm…I installed the FeedFlare (for FeedBurner) per the instructions, but something looked a bit squirrelly after I clicked “Save.” OTOH, it sometimes takes a bit for things to get incorporated.

I’ll give it 24 hours (or so) and troubleshoot after that. Thanks for the heads-up!

By: Game Dame

Game Dame — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:10:21 +0000

Just found out that this feature doesn’t show up in RSS. Just letting ya know.

By: Softi

Softi — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:30:06 +0000

great idea! I might have a look at that myself for my main blog…

By: Dammerung

Dammerung — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:17:04 +0000

Bahhumbuggery

I’m of the “Prefering not to rate things or have them rated” variety.

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Three minutes later I actualy visit their site and the installation was so easy and I’m curious.

So very curious.

By: Rhoelyn

Rhoelyn — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:55:08 +0000

I like it. Just like Game Dame said, I’d love to be able to ‘thumbs-up’ a post even if I don’t have a particular response to make to it. Did anyone read through their TOS? I tried, but after about a minute the wall of text burst right through my Shield and critted my brain for about 15k. x_X

Rating like mad,
~Rhoe

By: John LoGioco

John LoGioco — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:41:09 +0000

First thanks for giving our widget a try. Also thanks to Game Dame and Bruthah for the kind words and installs In addition to the rating widget there are several more aspects to the widget that you may like. First you can get a free blog rating report that will show how each post is being rated and sorted in terms of popularity.

Second you can opt to show a widget that displays your “Most Popular” posts as well as an option that will show recommendations on the post level to more of your blog’s content. The magic here is that we target the recommendations to each reader. Shoot me an email at john (at) outbrain (dot) com for more info. cheers

By: Bruthah

Bruthah — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:14:14 +0000

I’m with Dame. Although if it’s super enough, I might feel OK wth posting “Neat!” in the comments, I also like the ability to just click a star.

The “rated by people like you” feature of Outbrain seems interesting too!

By: Game Dame

Game Dame — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:05:16 +0000

Wow, I just love this! Sometimes I don’t have anything to add to a conversation, but I really like the post and feel silly about saying “great post” like some spammer would. This gives me a way to tell you what posts I like best or worst.