Suggestion: Rate My Club

I would like to state before talking about my idea, that this has not been thought of a lot, just an idea that occurred to me. And that I agree, that it definitely needs to be thought and improved on.

I would sort of like to see a feature where you can rate a club, and describe why you rated it like that. It would allow for members to decide if they want to join the club, it would influence the "recommended clubs" section, and it would give admins an opportunity to see how they can improve. Maybe sort of like what it asks you when you downgrade your membership, and admins, or maybe just S.A. can look at overall statistics of why members rated it like it is. Also, something I was thinking of was making the rating public or private. Again, this definitely needs to be improved on but I think it would make a very cool idea. Some of the details I gave can be taken away, or more details can be added on. Please consider my suggestion and ask any questions to me about it as you want.

Ideas from the comment section: 

Updated with frequency because the club's quality could change

Anonymous option (One con, there can be multiple fake reviews and the second accounts wont get caught, maybe a solution to this is chess.com moderators being able to see who the anonymous member was)

i like the idea !

@rcu21 Thank you!

It may have flaws I haven't thought about, but I am sure that there is a way to work around them.

yup this could definitely use some improvements but the general idea is pretty interesting 

Interesting! I’d like to see this.

@extremedragon, I would too! I am sure it needs to be improved on though.

Probably.

Interesting idea.

maybe it could be similar to Amazon's review structure, 1-5 bars with average, and reviews visible sorted by bars, or date.

The one key difference is a product's quality doesn't change over time but a club's features can improve or get worse. So the temporal nature of the club's quality and the age of the reviews can make detecting improvements/degradations problematic. Not sure how to solve this, maybe a running average or an average rating over a specified period.

Hopefully, there won’t be any trolls out there with multiple accounts giving clubs fake ratings. I like the idea, though!

Yeah, maybe an average rating or the rating is updated each month?

@LewisTu True, but that is unfortunately also true for absolutely every other thing on this website... I mean when clubs were made, of course, there was a possibility of trolls using multiple accounts to skyrocket the member count. Or when community trophies came out, of course there was the possibility of members making another account to give themselves loads of trophies. These 2nd accounts are also often banned though.

You saw saw long it took them to ban singingrocket 2nd accounts aren't the easiest to catch

I think he got banned for different reasons, they get banned frequently though, because if you join and the first thing you do is join a club, that is very suspicious, especially if it's not a top page recommended club.

And chess.com would eventually realize fake club ratings if they don't say anything to make it quicker or say the exact same message. 

Yes, this would be an awesome feature! I would very much support this idea!

P.S. Who was singingrocket?

An admin of The Golden 64 Squares obsessed with the member count, he deleted the club and got banned, I later contacted support and brought it back, this time, not focusing on the member count but rather on having fun.

well said

Oh. Yeah I can tell i’m gonna have a lot of fun !