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pages. You might conclude, though, as we do, that your blog visitors expect you to have the
pages in good shape and stable, and be just as happy not to be asked to rate them.
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Comments
—You can further extend the ratings options set for posts to comments, so people can
rate one another's comments. As a specific example, Amazon.com allows people to rate com-
ments for helpfulness, though they mix five-star ratings for topics with Nero ratings for whether
a rating and comment about a topic are helpful or not. WordPress only allows you to use star rat-
ings or Nero ratings, not to use each for different purposes.
Although allowing people to rate comments makes more sense to us than having them rate
pages, it still seems both complicated and potentially discouraging to your commenters. Also,
you don't have the option, which you might well want, of having the finely tuned five-star
ratings for posts and Nero ratings for comments. So we recommend you also leave this option
turned off, unless you want to create a real free-for-all feeling around your comments.
Figure 2.10
Let your
users rate to
their hearts'
content.
Ratings have both a substantive element—your blog has a different feel depending on what you do
and don't allow to be rated—and a subjective one relating to how the ratings look. Make the sub-
stantive choices now, and take an initial stab at the appearance. However, be ready to come back
and modify the appearance of ratings in keeping with the choices you make for your blog's theme,
as described in the next chapter.
