Anyone use ratings or recommendations on drupal sites?
Hi, my brother and I are developing a site at www.curethis.org. We first looked at using Scoop open source software, in perl language and with the strengths of scalability, a neat rating system, and a recent diaries/recommended diaries setup. Then we heard that drupal can now do all of the same things. We're definitely looking to have a user-contributed site with comments being rated and the ability for people to have diaries which can be recommended (much inspired by www.dailykos.com, which runs on scoop software).
Rating systems and recommending peoples' diaries are going to be integral to our site's success. We switched from trying to create the site with scoop to trying to create it with drupal because drupal has many other options and is easier to modify (and has tons more modules).
Are there sites that currently use rating systems and/or recommended diaries, that are run on drupal software?
We haven't really been able to find any yet, and want to only go with drupal unless it doesn't allow for these at the moment...
thanks!
-anjali
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Drupals voting modules allow you to rate any content you want to be able to rate. There are multiple voting modules available in the downloads area. Core Drupal does not offer ratings without using a contributed module.
A couple of suggestions...
First, the Republican blog similar to Daily Kos (Redstate.org) runs on Drupal and pretty much was set up to be as similar to Scoop as possible. They have recommended diaries using a module that was developed by Drum.
To see what I mean, check out the Recommended Nodes module that allows a Scoop-like degradation over time for recommendations, a simple web page "Recommend this Diary" block, a list of who recommended it, etc. The only problem with the module is that it hasn't been updated to 5.x yet and Drumm has indicated he doesn't have the time or current need to update it himself. It works a charm in 4.7 and just needs to be patched to bring it up to the current version.
Also, the Simple Karma module that mercmobiliy has just upgraded to 5.x and gotten into CVS is new, but looks very useful. It will allow you to set up "trusted users," bury comments, etc. like Scoop -- but it also offers a lot more functionality. The list of what it can do is too long to list here. "Simple" is really not an adjective that should have been used in the module name *gr*
Between those two, and the standard features of Drupal, you have the basis for doing what Scoop does but actually doing it better. Hope this helps.