Device Flagging and Voting for Scripts

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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.

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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.

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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.

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