Rating/sentiment voting

[mit-mit]

Currently package scores are based on static analysis and popularity. But they don't do a great job at expressing 'utility'’; whether a given package is actually useful.

Potential feature idea: Add an option for rating or voting up/down to attempt to capture this.

[escamoteur]

Besides Voting there also should be a way to report packages that pollute namings like 'UI' or brands 'twitter' so that they could be removed.

[thosakwe]

@escamoteur Agreed; there are many abandoned packages on Pub that have no functionality and are essentially name-squatting.

[mit-mit]

Thanks for the suggestion; that sounds pretty different from the present issue though, so would be good to log a new request for that.

[escamoteur]

#1570

[timsneath]

Think this is the same as #798?

[mit-mit]

Yes, it indeed looks like it is. Closing this newer issue as a duplicate.