How can we encourage more thoughtful feedback on FEX submissions?
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When a submission in the FileExchange looks interesting to me, I read the comments. The star ratings do not have a remarkable effect to my opinion, when they are not accompanied by a meaningful text. Therefore for me a bare 3-star rating is no problem at the point of downloading.
In opposite to this, the stars matter, when a programmer catches my interest. The number of submissions is not really trustworthy, because some users submit a pile of useless code snippets. The number of downloads is only partially meaningful, because some people seem to run a download bot to get a high ranking in the top 100. But the star ratings are not flawed, as long as one considers the outliers of unmotivated 1 star ratings.
If a user has more than 20 ratings and an average of >4.5 or more than 100 ratings and >4.8, I take the time to check the other submissions and search for gems.
In consequence, for me it is more useful to increase the number of comments with stars than to reduce the number of stars without comments.
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