Cumulative user ratings

Question

I am trying to set up a user to user rating system where users can rate nodes and the average is the users rating / total feedback.

I was thinking about using fivestar to create a field on the user profile, then create a fivestar reference (which doesnt exist to my knowledge) to that field so when a user rates a node they aren't rating the node, but the user's rating field attached to their user profile.

Is their a way to get users to rate nodes authored by a user and have it total up to give the user the average rating? I wanted something easy and light without having to create a feedback content type with a fivestar field and using entity prepopulate to pull the user in to link the user to the review content type. Or do it with entityforms/webform.

Would this be doable with flag since I am already using it pretty extensively?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Ok here is what you can do:

1. Attach a Five Star field to the user
2. Create Views block that shows the users. Select to show fields and only show the Five star field.
3. Use a contextual filter in the View to filter by User Id(uid). Select "Provide a Default Argument" -> "User id from URL" -> "Also look for a node and use the node author"
4. Place this block on the page. Restrict it by content type if you want.
5. When someone Views a node then they will see the Views block also and can rate the user.

You could put Header text area in text in the View to give the user instructions. You could also display the user name, picture or other information if you wanted.

This is way I could think of with the least amount of modules. If you were already using Panels you could use Panels to place the Five Star field on the node page but I won't suggest installing Panels just for this use case.