Announcement The Coop Page / Article Rating & Review Project!

[member 592157]

I've reviewed three but I'm out of time right now. I'll come back later and do more

 

[hysop]

I’ve reviewed 5 for sure. I think it was 6, but can’t remember. So for sure 5 that previously had 0 reviews now have 1

As I have free time I’ll review more here and there.

 

[member 592157]

Okay I've rated five articles but I'll try to do more later if possible. Hope this has helped-- I feel like the proverbial drop in the ocean!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Okay I've rated five articles but I'll try to do more later if possible. Hope this has helped-- I feel like the proverbial drop in the ocean!

Totally!

Fortunately, we've got potentially tens-of-thousands of peeps that can add their drops and make quick work of this if they all drop together!

 

[eggsandhens]

I rated 5 articles today, and a couple months ago I rated 3. I was glad I saw his announcement because I love reading and rating, it’s one of my favorite past times!

 

[Andrea3000]

We need each member to help us rate at least 5 Chicken Coop Articles Listed Here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/pages/coop-rating/

Update 12/16/2020: Once you've done 5 reviews, please reply to this thread letting us know!



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Chicken coops have been an incredibly important part of BYC from the beginning (1999), and we are always striving to improve our coop pages, resources, and organization of the over 3,000 (yes THREE-THOUSAND) chicken coop pages!

So, to further the cause, we've got something important to do!

We need YOUR HELP with rating chicken coops!!

Short Version: Go to THIS PAGE, click one of the links, rank the chicken coop page!

Details: Our goal is to have EVERY coop page have at least 3 ratings! We know that ends up being a LOT of ratings to do (3,000 x 5 = 15,000 ratings!), but to put it into perspective, if the 2,000+ active members of BYC (that's logged-in MEMBERS, not guests) just did 8 ratings, we'd be done in one day

Our system has "ratings" (just the star rating) and "reviews" (the rating + a text comment), and you can do either one, but we prefer you provide a "review" if you can.

We want your HONEST feedback on the coop pages. If you have some constructive feedback, but don't want to leave your name, you can check the anonymous box and leave a review anonymously.

NOTE: If you see ANYTHING in the article that needs fixing (missing images, poorly formatted text, etc.,) PLEASE see the post HERE for instructions.

To focus our efforts, I'll be posting (and updating) the list of coop pages that have under 5 ratings, and updating the list from time to time.

We look forward to your help!!!




Regarding rating criteria, try not to rate a coop page only on the way the coop looks. A 5-Star coop page is one that is incredibly detailed and chock-full of stuff that will help others build their perfectly fitting coop, and usually has a great combo of:

• A bunch of pics during and after construction
• A nice write-up of what the person did, what they liked, what they would have done differently, tips, tricks, etc.
• Plans of the coop are a big bonus!

2) Chicken Coop Indexes Sort Order: Short version: All coop pages are now sorted by "Rating"! Check out our Chicken Coops Index!

Longer Version: About 4 months ago I was having a great convo with a bunch of our Premium Feather Membership (PFM's) to get their thoughts on the sort-order of the coop pages. We realized that sorting by "rating" wasn't a good option because the system only took into account average rating. That mean that a page with a single 5-star review (let's say a friend gave it to someone's not-great page) would rank higher than a page with dozens of 4.9 reviews.

I was inspired to reach out to the developer and I was very pleased to hear that he was going to re-code the articles system to accommodate "weighted ratings"!!!

So, starting today, all coop-page indexes are sorted by "weighted ratings"!

All done rating coops? Head on over and help with this:
BYC Learning Center REVIEW Project

Spoiler: More geeky info on how ratings are calculated - click here

Ok, so non-weighted: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/category/chicken-coops.12/?order=rated
compared to weighted: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/category/chicken-coops.12/?order=rating_weighted

Check out the results on that 2nd link... those are definitely the "best" coop articles, right!?!?

If anybody wants to get their geek-on, here's how the calculation is done. It's based on this : Bayesian average - Wikipedia

     // same as the xf resource manager to maintain a standard.
    public static $voteThreshold = 10;
    public static $averageVote = 3;

    public function getWeightedRating($count, $sum)
    {
        return (self::$voteThreshold * self::$averageVote + $sum) / (self::$voteThreshold + $count);
    }

More info here: https://fulmicoton.com/posts/bayesian_rating/

Did my 5 reviews!

 

[member 592157]

I've reviewed 3 more! It's funny-- when I started earlier, the list with no reviews was long, but now there's only a few when I load the list

 

[N F C]

A quick BUMP to remind peeps that we have a LOT of coops without any reviews:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/pages/coop-rating/

Did 5 yesterday and another 5 this morning!

 

[CIuck]

I have rated five articles

 

[MROO]

Did my five (plus some extra) yesterday, but forgot to post again. Now the list is down to 2 (yup, TWO) today, which I'm sure will disappear by the time I'm done typing this, I have another gauntlet to throw down ...
Keep it going! If I recall correctly, the original goal was to have at least five reviews on each article. "One Each" down ... four more to go!