I am not sure that a user rating system will separate anything from anything. A bright but highly controversial mod might score 50% right up there with the green-eyed half-drow kick-ass warrior-princess who is taunted by her tragic destiny but is cheerful and sweet at the same time mod (no real mod is implied, just my highly subjective idea of a bad mod)...
While it is true that a review serves as a better way to express a personal opinion, it, again, tells nothing to the mass-user, see Kulyok's ruminations on the matters of taste.
I love Ebert and Roeper. I watch it every week. I agree and disagree with their opinions. However, I do not know anyone in the movie world. That makes me an unbias viewer far removed from the internal squabbles. In every fan-fiction community I have seen, review system is a transparent public relationships hoax, abused in the power games and deeply affected by the community's political undercurrents. They all hunger for a passer-by "just" reader. They all get "I write therefore I review" instead.
In other words, there is nothing wrong with adding either rating or a review section. Just don't expect it to be unbias or filled in by an average player out of those 10,000 who downloaded the mod and had never taken a hand in modding himself. Especially if it is located at an active modding site. Sorcerer's Place or Iron Works, is, perhaps the better idea, because they do not actively mod, they are user-support oriented.
Edited by Ashara, 10 October 2005 - 02:26 PM.
