Jerry Krinock wrote on Mar 15
th, 2012 at 11:33am:
Hello again, Rob.
Actually, we have a hook in our data model to do that, but have never implemented it. I've never thought through how such a thing would be used, but we'll give it some thought. One of the web browsers, I forgot which, uses star ratings.
And thanks for the tip on "zero" stars. That makes sense.
Here's how I'd use it: I have scads of old bookmarks going back years. I certainly don't remember anything about many of them. Sometimes if I'm just looking for something interesting to check out, I'll visit a random old bookmark. If it had, say, a 4-star rating indicating "this is pretty cool" I'd have a better basis on which to select.
One should of course be able to sort on number of stars.
There is of course the argument "Well, if you didn't think it was worthwhile, why did you bookmark it in the first place?" But I'd respond that 1 star means it exceeds some minimum level of coolness; worthwhile if not enthralling. And of course, things change. I might want to change a star rating if either the site or my tastes evolve over time.