I am new to ACS, and have a lot of experience in web-based KM development. The ideas in this thread sound great. The design and development of a "general-ratings" module is something I'd like to work on.
I think the idea would be to allow the creation of "rating-dimensions." Each dimension would have it's own "scale," "description," and "instructions." The scale would be a numeric range or a list of "phrase value pairs." The description would be the "title." The instructions could be additional help text available to a user. Each rating-dimension could be associated with one or more objects in the system. A rating would be a relationship among a user, an object, a rating-dimension, and a point on the rating-dimension's scale.
This could be an object-level service. Users could rate other users, themselves, a bboard answer, or an entire bboard instance. It would depend upon the application.
I'd be interested to know what my next steps should be. Should I post my ideas here or start a package where the documents can grow collaboratively? If the latter, how do I get CVS permissions?
Looking forward to it.
