Collections If someone endorses a collection it should give every mod in it an endorsement as well

[commanderstrawberry]

If someone gets a mod through a collection, they might never see the original mod page.

So in mods that are in collections, this gives people browsing the mod page a wildly incorrect ratio on how many people have actually played with and enjoyed the mod.

I think if a collection gets endorsed, all the mods it has in it deserve an endorsement as well.

[CodeScu1ptor]

I understand motivation behind the idea and I like the motivation, but I don't think it is a good solution.

I used one of largest collections for Cyberpunk 2077. Authors made great work and I endorsed them. But they were not really picky when adding cars to the collection. Large amount of those cars didn't deserve an endorsement in my opinion - especially if I would like such endorsement to matter when given to good mods out there.

I guess this could mess up endorsement scores, making endorsements an unreliable measure of mod quality / attractiveness and being unfair to authors of quality mods.

Edited April 15 by CodeScu1ptor
added info about such solution being unfair to mods making quality work

[zloybelka]

16 hours ago, CodeScu1ptor said:

I guess this could mess up endorsement scores, making endorsements an unreliable measure of mod quality / attractiveness and being unfair to authors of quality mods.

Then every Collection page needs a huge banner saying something like "By pressing the Endorse button you're endorsing every single mod in this collection. Please, unendorse manually the mods you really didn't like". Simple  No one will do it anyway, but at least we tried.

[NexBeth]

Users don't endorse even when they are not using a collection, so why would this be different?  Also, just because you used a mod, doesn't mean you like it or think you should endorse it.  If collection mods get auto-endorsement why not just give auto-endorsement for every mod downloaded on Nexus?

I don't think it would be all that intrusive to have endorse reminders on default at Nexus.  Users who don't want to ever endorse anything can turn it off if they wish.

[CodeScu1ptor]

I get endorse reminders, but they are simply crappy, to be honest. I get a list with mod names and usually I don't recognize 90-100% of them. Only positive outcome of those reminders is that they remind me to scroll through recent downloads in Vortex and endorse things that I tried and like - but that's only my own personal "initiative".

[CelestialStarmie]

Simple solution - Give the option to endorse all mods in a collection, but keep the ability to endorse select mods from a collection, as it does from our download history's.

[Zanderat]

Endorsements should mean something.  Auto endorsing would weaken that.  At that point, endorsements = downloads.  What's the point?

[CodeScu1ptor]

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At that point, endorsements = downloads.  What's the point? 

Yes, this is essential flaw of proposed idea!

Edited April 19 by CodeScu1ptor

[skyliner390]

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Auto endorsing would weaken that. At that point, endorsements = downloads.

Your logic is flawed. It's not auto endorsing, which implies lack of intervention. The user must initiate the endorsement manually, what changes is the scope of it. A collection is comprised of individual mods that form a whole. If the user likes the collection enough to want to endorse this amalgamation, it merits each component of it gets endorsed as well. If the user dislikes a certain part of the whole, they're free to unendorse that individually.

 

I wholeheartedly agree with this idea, but I see little chance of it being implemented. It requires too much effort for something the site management doesn't care about.