I just tested http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment and it looks to be doing similar work as custom reviews. The only difference is, nodecomment is replacing comments altogether. Otherwise it is very much like Custom review

Striky, what do you think about that module as compared Custom review ? which one should I go for to build a review website ? to build a Q/A like system ?

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crea commented

poseidon123, Choosing between options you listed, I would vote for custom_review because getting rid of comments completely is not very smart for generic site ( in most cases you have additional content types that you don't want to be reviewed but commented ). Also there are other nice modules that depend on comment module so IMO nodecomments is for some very rare setups.

I need to make similar design decisions cause I'm building site with review functionality. There are other simple ways to make review system, such as node hierarchy and node relativity modules (atleast it seems so from their description), and hard ones requiring additional setup such as using any cck content types with nodereference field.

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OneTwoTait commented

I've tried both. Node Comment does 80% of the job, Custom Reviews does 0%, but would be hopeful if somebody was maintaining this module.

Node Comment problems:
- Does not allow the option of limiting users to only one post per parent-node.
- Does not allow the option of not displaying the title field.
- Does not allow us to remove the "Reply" link from select content-types. It makes no sense to reply to the Review as users should only be making Reviews on the parent-node.

Custom Reviews problems:
- IT DOESN"T WORK AT ALL. There are menu errors (#337546: Invalid argument). On mine the block doesn't even show a link to add a review. It's just a colapsible block with nothing in it.
- It doesn't show the reviews under the parent-node either. Instead it requires the use of Panels, which is still supposedly not stable enough to be used on live sites.

I'll try Node Relativity too.

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arski commented

Yea this module is a mess with no support.. quite unfortunate..

Node Relativity looks interesting.. but you might also like to try out http://drupal.org/project/nodehierarchy

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arski commented

In fact scratch that and just use Fivestar - it can do this and many other things. Check this great tutorial I found http://drupal.org/files/issues/Tutorial%20fivestar%20cck%20views.pdf on how to build this kind of a review system.

And forget about all these unmaintained modules :D