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Test post for reader-ratings

I’m testing setup of Scott Heavner’s Rating plugin - which is adaptable to let me rate things, like movies or books, but here - we’ll use it to let you, gentle reader, rate posts. Since there’s so much here, I thought this might be away to get your feedback and have more community interaction. What you see on this page is what I think is important out of the daily chaos of IT news, but I need to know more about what is relevant for your work.

To do this test, I need to upload the plugin, and play with a new feature I haven’t tried before - custom fields. OK - the first step is done. Now to test…

And test.

Eventually, when the real geeks troubleshoot this for me, there should be some sort of box after each post to rate them. If we use ratings, it’ll help provide another slice of the data up here, in additon to category grouping, conversation tracking via comments and plain old chronological view. I’ll update this when it’s fixed.
Updated: Haha - well, the plugin has been working for some time I think, but it doesn’t display on this main page, as I expected (and wanted). To rate posts, you’ll have to follow the link to comment page, where you can then rate it.

Once we get a few posts rated, I’ll add a new view of ‘highest rated posts’ to the sidebar.