Rating system for users

Question

I want to implement a system on my wordpress site.

In my site, there are a bunch of users signed up. It is a social networking site. I would basically like a rating system that ranks the users based on their skill. I am using buddy press for users to create their own profiles. I almost thought of just adding a criteria on their profile, a drop down menu, that says rate your gaming skills 1-10. but the problem with that is that everyone will rank themselves high. I almost would like a system where the user could go and rank themselves, but I could come in and modify the ranking if I need to.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

From what you've mentioned, this could be done by adding a new field to the user_meta on the back end.

Then, you could use an approach similar to what's documented here for front end editing by users: How to edit a user profile on the front end?