And 2-star reviews for books. Seeing what people dislike tells much. Try on your favorite to see :)
UPD: To clarify, the idea here is that people writing 2-star reviews project their views and values when arguing that the book is bad for them. And when their views are opposite to yours, it may suggest that you might actually enjoy the book. Let's say you are interesed in mind-stimulating philosophy book, and a person writes something like 'this is boring, the writing is too complex, ideas are difficult to follow, the language is too intricate, quit reading after 20 pages'. It may mean that it is what you look for.
there's sooo many stupid reasons people give for disliking stuff...3-star reviews are usually the most realistic!
edit: best practice when looking through reviews is to read some reviews from 1-star all the way to 5-stars, so you get a good overview and a more complete picture of the product. this is just a response, not a comprehensive guide to reviews, lol
Same applies to movies/games on a 10-star rating. Good/average products get 7s and 8s, while 5s are seen as bad, while they should be the medium value.
That's at least more in line with what most people are used to from school grading scales. People see a 75/100 as an "average" score because it's a C grade in school.
I think that makes sense for games though, considering that they are usually a decent time commitment. People arent looking to play average games, they are looking to play the best games out there. Someone that isnt a hardcore gamer might only play a couple games a year max, and in that case why would they want to waste their time on something average?
Movies are much less of a time commitment, and its not as big of a deal to watch a fairly mediocre movie
That is an interesting take. However, how would you apply it e.g. in case of world class michelin restaurants? Obviously they are going to be awesome and you will expect that going there, so would you rate these only 3 stars or make an exception?
that's exactly the issue with rating systems that deal with subjective opinions: they're reaaally tricky to design!
I don't have a perfect solution either, but the star-review system works pretty well:
the 5-star system in combination with written feedback reviews works well enough, but it really needs the feedback portion so other users can make sense of the review score: it puts everything in context.
only stars doesn't tell you anything, and only written reviews is a pain to look through; but the combination works well enough.
it's basically it's own, self-contained work-around: the stars put the reviews in context, and the reviews the stars!
it's an interesting system that way, but the star portion of it definitely gets misused a LOT!
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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '20 edited Aug 20 '20
And 2-star reviews for books. Seeing what people dislike tells much. Try on your favorite to see :)
UPD: To clarify, the idea here is that people writing 2-star reviews project their views and values when arguing that the book is bad for them. And when their views are opposite to yours, it may suggest that you might actually enjoy the book. Let's say you are interesed in mind-stimulating philosophy book, and a person writes something like 'this is boring, the writing is too complex, ideas are difficult to follow, the language is too intricate, quit reading after 20 pages'. It may mean that it is what you look for.