Comments on: Ratings soon to be nonexistent in Second Life

By: TD Goodliffe

TD Goodliffe — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 22:10:22 +0000

Update: I tried getting my Ratepoint account setup today. The username/pass I used during signup didn’t work. I stopped by the island and the rep there tried to help me but basically was powerless to do anything at the website and told me to IM his boss.

I just replied to the Ratepoint support and told them to remove my account. Maybe if I sign up anew (after the pre-release period this time) it will work right. It was far and away not “RatePoint is very easy to sign up and use” like it was for you. It was easy to sign up, easy to get the object but totally impossible to sign into the website

By: Darius Sartre

Darius Sartre — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:25:35 +0000

Thanks! And yeah… I’m worried about the whole unification issue.

RatePoint looks decent, but I’m unsure it’s the best solution yet. Maybe I’ll take a look at the other services and do some comparisons.

By: TD Goodliffe

TD Goodliffe — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:13:29 +0000

Oh, and BTW Darius welcome to VTOR!

By: TD Goodliffe

TD Goodliffe — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:12:53 +0000

I never used the SL built-in rating system all that much, but it might be a good idea for a third party service to run it if, as you indicated above, there is a single service that most people use. It’s kind of like IM programs. If they will be interoperable in some way or come forth with a single unified rating format that most/all rating services use then maybe some useful rating mashups will occur.

One thing I don’t like about Ratepoint is the repeated: “hey, we noticed you haven’t activated your account yet” emails. Send one of those one time and then deactivate the account after X amount of days.

With that said, I should probably finish activating my Ratepoint account so I stop receiving those messages.