The race may already be lost, but still.
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what about using thumbs up/down and computing a five-star rating from the average?
this system can skew the average towards negative
say someone found a hair in their soup but otherwise the experience was amazing - even if they're peak karen they'd still probably give something like 3 stars, but if faced with a binary choice they'd probably pick the negative option
unless you mean up/down vote per each quality like atmosphere, food, hygine, service etc then that'd preserve the nuance imo
no, no nuance. only yes or no.
alternatively it skews the average towards positive: shit i found a hair in my soup! that indicates bad hygiene it the service was so good and i don’t want the wait staff to suffer! i’d probably go 3 stars but this is a thumbs down
it all comes out in the wash: 1 hair in 1 soup, doesn’t matter… many hairs in many soups, place deserves a 0 not a 3
On steam it makes it so that universally good but not exceptional games get overwhelmingly positive reviews, but like a 3.5 star average on backloggd
still more accurate than 5 star bullshit, infact tthe most accurate one I have seen
Now i don't know if i should upvote fpor thinking outside the box or downvote for the faults in it. Maybe if we had 3 options? But then, what if the idea only has one fault and more positives? Maybe 5 options...?
compromise: you need to write a 1000 word review at at least a 12th grade level and we use automated sentiment analysis to set the score.
still only as thumbs up or down though.
You just described the entirety of my career on ePinions back in the day. I made bank off of that stupid website even though commenters with short attention spans constantly complained I was too verbose. Many dumb early 2000s computer parts were paid for via that avenue.
I made the top 100 at one point. I still have the hat they sent me someplace.
I like a three point rating. Disappointing, As Expected, Awesome.
add a second rating, 1 for service, 1 for management. that way server 5* management 1*