I’ve seen Achievements, but I don’t think this allows users to rate the QUALITY of other users’ comments eg. with star ratings.
I already use Cubepoints and have it setup such that each comment made gives a user 1 point, and the more points they have the higher the “rank” they have, eg. 25 points = Bronze, 50 points = Silver, 100 points = Gold – that’s all good. I think you’re supposed to be able to assign badges to each rank too, but I can’t get that to work for some reason with the Cubepoints Buddypress Integration plugin.
Anyway, I want to take this further and distinguish users based on the QUALITY of their comments. So to do this I need users to be able to rate each others’ comments. Doing this by star ratings would be preferable. Eg. if a user makes 5 comments, and 3 of those comments were rated 5 stars (out of 5) by other users, that user would have an overall rating of 5 stars based on 3 votes. Hence, people can identify this user as a higher QUALITY poster, to some extent at least.
The premium version of the Rating-Widget plugin does exactly this!
BUT, they are having some troubles with the load times of websites due to some issues with “Rich-Snippets” (my website becomes very slow when the plugin is activated), so I am looking for another alternative as I’m not sure how long it will take for them to fix this.
With GD star ratings I couldn’t find a simple way to do this, though I suspect it is possible with some customisation.
Will check out MyCred, but it looks similar to Cubepoints
