Endorsements (as percentage of downloads)

[martinistripes]

This would be a handy metric to sort mods by. Currently, when you sort by endorsements, mods that are years old will always be near the top and newer mods are shuffled to the back simply because the older mod has had more time to gather endorsements. Shown as a percentage, frequently endorsed newer mods can still appear at the top of the list. Example.

 

Sort by endorsements:

 

1. Mod A - 10,000 Endorsements, 1,000,000 downloads, Published 2014

2. Mod B - 1,000 Endorsements, 2,000 downloads, Published 2019

 

Sort by endorsements (%):

 

1. Mod B - 50% endorsements

2. Mod A - 1% endorsements

 

(Here Mod B moves to the top because 50% of people that download it, endorse it)

 

 

[Reneer]

Interesting idea, but I've never seen endorsement percentages get above 12% and most linger around 3-5%.

[JimboUK]

Speaking for myself and not as staff, the idea has been suggested before and while sounding good it really isn't, joke mods and niche mods tend to get a higher percentage so you'll get some very odd results. The top New Vegas mod of all time has a ratio of 9.5%, a joke mod that took me five minutes to make has a ratio of 13%.

[RGMage2]

Considering that we can sort by Last updated, File size, Last comment, and Random, all of which could bring up some undesirable or mostly useless results, I don't understand the resistance from Nexus to adding a sort by Endorsements to Downloads Percentage.

 

If there is a technical reason why it is undesirable to add this feature, then that should be explained so that we can stop asking for it. Other than that it is a no brainer.

 

and jim, maybe your joke mod really would be of more interest to some people than the so-called top mod of all time. Who's to say what some people should want or not want?

[JimboUK]

I'm not resistant to it, I just don't see the point, there is already a Most Endorsed (Trending) and that can be set to anything from a day to a year, that's more useful. I think there is an issue with sites having the same mods on show every time you click "Mods", especially on older sites where newer mods will never get anywhere near the older ones purely because there aren't the players, for example Fallout 3's top mod is from 2008 and isn't even needed anymore, it's only function is now included in every mod manager. I don't know what the answer is but a sorting method that throws up anomalous results surely isn't it.