That’s a neat feature … I hadn’t seen that yet. None of my files show up in the following search, fortunately ;-):

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/?term=ratepair%3A908%2F4

Also … and this is even more serious. Since the rolling out of the new interface to the Newsgroup / File Exchange / etc, there has been a noted dearth of tag:humor:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/search_results?search_string=tag%3Ahumor

The last tag:humor was from (appropriately enough) John D’Errico, in early August.

Has everyone suddenly gotten too serious! Oh no! We need some serious efforts in lightening up, guys!

In the meantime, here’s a search that I like:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/?term=ratepair:679/4

As you say, John D’Errico does great work reviewing files. This search is sort of the inverse of what you asked for. It returns every submission that John gave 4 or 5 stars to (since we rolled out the new version of the File Exchange). Right now there are six files that match that criterion, and half of them are yours!

There are some reviewers who take a great deal of care in their reviews, and are very accurate (John d’Errico for example; there are many others). That could be reflected through an Amazon.com-style “I found this review helpful” button. Those votes would then be reflected back into a relative reviewer rating. The reviewer rating could then be folded back into the computation for the average rating of a file, where trusted reviewers get more weight.

There are also the polar opposites. Such shall remain nameless …

Finally, I would also like an option to say “I always trust this reviewer” which means “From my perspective, ‘delete’ (do not show me) any files for which this reviewer rates a 1.” It would also be reflected in the ratings that I see for a file. Then some files that some consider trolling spam could at least be hidden from view, since they distract from the good stuff on the File Exchange.

Oh, and one other thing … I would like to be able to do a search *inside* a file. Such as “give me a list of all the files that use the “sparse” function. This search should be context senstive (such as the ability to search just M-code, not comments, since some MATLAB commands are common English words … “find”, “any”, etc).

You should be able to do that by subscribing to this search:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/?term=ratepair:679/4

Click on “Watch this search”. It seems like this search only goes back to when we did the File Exchange switch (when we added the login requirement for commenting).

You can construct the search through here:
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/advanced_search