What readers think, without a list of who they are
Once a Concept is public, people form opinions about it. Takeida records those opinions carefully, and refuses to turn them into a list of who is watching you.
- Ratings and Follows
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Never the average on its own. Five stars from one person is not five stars from two hundred.
Before anyone rates
No rating shown at all, because a zero would read as a verdict.
As an owner you see how many. Never who. Nobody is handed a list of the people paying attention to them.
Ratings
One to five whole stars, one rating per person, always shown with the number of people who gave it.
On a public Concept, anyone signed in can rate it. They do not need to belong to your organization or to have been given anything, because that is what publishing invites: a public rating reports what readers think, and readers are mostly strangers. Reading needs no account at all, but rating does, since a rating has to belong to somebody.
The average and the count always appear together. Five stars from one person is not five stars from two hundred, and showing the average alone would let the first quietly impersonate the second. Until somebody actually rates something there is no rating shown at all, rather than a zero, which would read as a verdict.
You cannot rate your own organization's work. Every account gets an organization when it signs up, so without that rule a one-person organization could simply award itself five stars.
Follows
Keep track of what you care about, across every organization you belong to.
Following is looser on purpose. You can follow anything you can read, including your own work, because a follow says what you want to keep an eye on rather than passing a judgement anyone else reads. What you follow is one list across all your organizations, not one per organization.
If something you follow stops being public it drops out of your list, but the follow is not deleted, it goes dormant. If the owner publishes it again, or gives you access directly, it returns on its own, so you never quietly lose track of something you never unfollowed.
Ratings behave differently, and deliberately. They stay. A Concept that was public, collected forty ratings and then went private still carries them for the people who can see it, because those opinions were genuinely held by people who genuinely read it. A follow is a standing intention about the future, so it lapses when it can no longer be acted on. A rating is a record of a judgement already made, so it does not.
And the part that holds everywhere: as an owner you see how many people rated, followed or adapted your Concept. Never who. Nobody is handed a list of the people paying attention to them, and nobody has to think about being watched back before deciding to follow something.