In reading comments about quality in the Free Scripting Dead thread, i think it should be required to flag a script as “tested on X device”, which then auto adds any/all devices listed. While i do think it should be required to choose at least one, it shouldn’t be like a hard and fast ban worthy rule. I think the application would be something like, you submit a script, you select your tested device, and users can reply and vote on the devices they tested the script with that then can add the device tag (and maybe a quality ranking?) for that device. So even if i make a script with the null tag of “Untested”, someone can click a button that says “Keon 3/5” “Handy 2 4/5” “Handy 2 Overclocked 5/5” etc.
I feel this will help gravitate users to scripts for the devices they have, and help inform scripters of the kinds of scripts they could make for different devices.
Good idea. I’d like to add that a script being tested isn’t the only way of judging its quality. People familiar with good scripting practices can judge a script more accurately by loading it into OFS than an average user testing with their device.
Both are valid ways of judging a script, but there’s a ceiling of accuracy when judging using a device.
I think at the end of the day, the goal is finding a script that feels good, so having a metric to loosely gauge how people say the script feels on each device can help a lot with picking the right ones. More than once ive been in a situation where my favorite video has a script that isn’t good for my device but everyone else says its great.