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by Michael Mello.
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I recently read a nice article by Scott Mitchell on creating a content rater. He has provided us with a nice ASP.NET user control that is similar to the one seen on MSDN articles. The control is used by readers to rate the article, or in this case blog, on a scale from one to five.
I have taken his control, and made a few quick tweaks (nothing too exciting at the moment), and itegrated it into my feedback pages. Currently I have taken out the commenting ability of the content rater, because I feel it's a little superfluous in a blogging environment. (After all, if you want to leave feedback, you can just use the feedback form)
I would like to tweak this control in the future, and probably create a seperate link for each blog, so you'll have the option of leaving feedback, or a rating. I think it makes good sense for a blogging site, and I'm sure you'll see many people implementing this as well.