I’m implementing a site right now that requires a rating feature and a commenting feature.  Each user will be able to rate each entry once and they’ll be able to comment repeatedly. 

I’m planning to implement the rating part (e.g. 1-5 out of 5 stars) using the Rating module.  For the commenting part, I’m trying to determine if I should use EE’s built-in commenting features or use the Rating module for that as well.  It seems to me that using the Rating module to collect free-entry text responses is essentially the same thing as commenting.  When would you suggest that I’d want to use the Rating module for that kind of functionality vs. the built-in EE commenting?

Well the deciding factor is that you are allowing one rating per user but multiple comments. The Rating module can help you prevent duplicates, but it can’t differentiate between kinds of duplicates. It only knows that a person has submitted SOMETHING for a blog entry.

I would say use Rating for the numerical and EE comments as normal.

mk

Ok, thanks, I’m going to give that a shot.