* The slider only rates when you "click" - as in, I assumed I could drag the slider up/down as the video played and it'd rate it in real time. That'd be cool.
* Work on your homepage! Include: Search for YouTube Videos, Highest rated/Lowest rated videos. "Think of Skuttlefish as Dial Polls for online videos. " I don't know what this means, personally. I'd make the "What is Skuttlefish" text much larger and colourful, its a cool idea so make sure users know what they're doing the moment they look at the page.
* Make a logo. Make a bookmarklet so I can rate YouTube videos from Youtube.com
* When I explicitly click "Register" it takes me to the login window. Can you make it so you can login with your "name" or email?
I hope that didnt come across as too harsh, I really think its a fantastic idea, and I think your execution is great - just a few TINY niggles! You've done 99.999% of the work!
I think so! I think the trick is to allow users to use it from the youtube.com site -- make it really really easy to rate videos.
You almost want some form of bot that posts a comment on users video page if they're rated x times ("your video has been ranked on skuttlefish - the most popular part is y, and the least popular is z - rate this video here")
yeah it should do it when the slider stops, so if it starts at 0 and you move it to 5 and stop, then it should place a rating at 5. is this happening for you?
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Hah. Cool.
Few niggles:
* The slider only rates when you "click" - as in, I assumed I could drag the slider up/down as the video played and it'd rate it in real time. That'd be cool.
* Work on your homepage! Include: Search for YouTube Videos, Highest rated/Lowest rated videos. "Think of Skuttlefish as Dial Polls for online videos. " I don't know what this means, personally. I'd make the "What is Skuttlefish" text much larger and colourful, its a cool idea so make sure users know what they're doing the moment they look at the page.
* Make a logo. Make a bookmarklet so I can rate YouTube videos from Youtube.com
* When I explicitly click "Register" it takes me to the login window. Can you make it so you can login with your "name" or email?
I hope that didnt come across as too harsh, I really think its a fantastic idea, and I think your execution is great - just a few TINY niggles! You've done 99.999% of the work!
oh no no that is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for your comments I will add to them right away. Do you think it is a workable concept?
I think so! I think the trick is to allow users to use it from the youtube.com site -- make it really really easy to rate videos. You almost want some form of bot that posts a comment on users video page if they're rated x times ("your video has been ranked on skuttlefish - the most popular part is y, and the least popular is z - rate this video here")
nice idea.
yeah it should do it when the slider stops, so if it starts at 0 and you move it to 5 and stop, then it should place a rating at 5. is this happening for you?
it works for me when the slider stops and I release dragging, is that what it should do?
yes exactly that is how it should work.
working A-OK then :) I assumed you could just keep dragging the slider up/down and it'll update my rating.