If your company is serious about citizen development, you've got to be serious about endorsement! Users need to quickly find which reports and models are reliable. If you agree and want to make this easier, read on and vote for this idea! 📈 It can be tough to provide good governance and endorsement of data, while also facilitating smooth citizen development. Difficult problem to solve... but it's already been solved! I'm proposing a 5-star ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐rating scale for models and reports. Lots of other platforms use a 5-star rating scale to allow the best products to bubble up organically to a user's recommended results. Amazon is a great example of a platform that ensures quality while allowing just about anyone to create content. Suppose I want to create an Amazon store and start listing products. What's to stop me? They could be good products, could be bad -- no one knows at first until the first few orders and reviews start trickling in. Eventually, time will tell. If I have a "4.9 star" product with 1500 votes, and someone else has a competing "2.5 star" product with 30 votes, which one are you more likely to buy? I'm more likely to go with the product more people have reviewed and affirmed. Replace that Amazon product with a report or model. If my CFO sees a "4.9 star" report with 1500 votes, and another "2.5 star" report with 30 votes, which one is she more likely to trust? Of course administrators can add endorsements, but when user content volume becomes too high to curate each citizen-developed item, this organic scale can help consumers make better educated decisions about where they should put their trust.
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