[hackerspaces] Removing non-hackerspaces from the hackerspaces.org list?

[Far McKon]

 Involved in Four spaces?  You my friend, get the 'Overinvolved' award.

I can see why ratings would be nice, but I think if there is any
system like that, we have to be sure people are rating on the same
scale. Friendlyness? Technical ability? 'Hackerspace-ess' of the
space?  I think it's a cool idea, but could use a little more fleshing
out.

I think a mini-RFC on what you are proposing would be cool, if you
have the time to make one.

hack on,
- Far


On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Koen Martens <gmc at sonologic.nl> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 09:16:32AM -0700, john arclight wrote:
>> It seems like reviews work pretty well on sites like Yelp that list
>> restaurants. Give people the info and decide for youself.
>> Example:
>> "Butch's Coffee Shop - 3 reviews: While they do serve coffee, it's mostly a
>> leather bar where BDSM enthusiasts meet. Lattes half off on Mondays. 3/5
>> stars"
>> Etc.
>
> Well, since i'm on a hackerspace tour currently, I was thinking about this
> again. Yelp basically has two fields for a review: the review prosa itself
> and a quantitized rating. Also, you can rate the reviews themselves.
>
> It seems most of the review sites have this quantitized rating (4 out of 5,
> 3 stars out of 10, whatever). I don't think that is really useful though
> for hackerspace reviews. The meta-review (rating the reviews) might..
>
> Anyway, as a first stab at getting this started, i'm thinking of a template
> to store reviews, with fields 'author', 'review' and 'hackerspace'. Add in
> some mediawiki magic to make a form appear on each hackerspace page (or a
> page with the same name in the Review namespace) that allows inputting
> the review text. And some more magic to aggregate the reviews on the
> page.
>
> Now I'm resisting the temptation to porpose a rating, such as with
> couchsurfing wher eyou can say 'positive/neutral/negative'. I can
> see uses for it, but I hate being negative and think that if you are
> being negative you should just shut up :)
>
> - - gmc
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