The race may already be lost, but still.
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The problem is that most people rate the first way. If a place has a rating of a 4.5 and I thought they were pretty good, but not perfect, so they deserve 4 stars, I am not going to rate them. Having 4 stars is usually considered not that good, so lowering their score is not what I want to accomplish as 4.5 is pretty fitting in the context most people have. That leads me to giving 5 stars relativley often and not rating ok or just good places at all.
5 point scales are dumb because there's too much ambiguity with 2s and 4s. Since everyone has an inconsistent definition of what those mean, they don't really mean anything. Knowing that intuitively, people spam 5s and 1s because those are unambiguous.
3 or even 2 point scales are better. Dislike, Neutral, Like / would not recommend, would maybe recommend, would always recommend or just removing the middle option to push people off the fence.
What if the company pays a bot farm to give 5 star ratings to everything?
Not everywhere! This fucks over anybody who depends on ratings for job evals.
It's made by people who've never had to do customer support.
A long time ago I adopted the Jinx's Rating For All Things system and it's served me very well. It is very similar to OPs suggestion.
- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: This thing is core to who I am. I don't want to live in a world without it. The experience was life changing.
- ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: I really like this thing! This will be in my rotation for along time. I had an amazing time!
- ⭐️⭐️⭐️: I like it. Perfect in the background. If it's on, I probably will watch/listen, but I probably won't seek it out. Inoffensive. This meets but doesn't exceed my expectations.
- ⭐️⭐️: Not my thing, but I see why people like it. It has value, just not to me. I was slightly annoyed.
- ⭐️: Why would anyone like this thing?!?!?!?
I personally think the 5-star rating system is perfect. Any more than that and a lot of the mid-tier ratings become arbitrary and everything is subject to immediacy bias. Tastes change over time and how much you like stuff changes, but I've found that they rarely change buckets in this system.
I don't understand why someone cares if they like one thing "just a little bit more" than another. It doesn't have to be a competition. Do you like it or do you love it? Is it core to understanding you as a person? Did you have an amazing time?
my rating system is relative… 5 stars? only if i think its worth it… a star less that its score means i dont think it deserved that score (even for 3s etc); a star more, i think it deserved more… generally wont go less than 2 stars less unless they really deserved it
So for the instead rating, what would a dildo server under when only 2 stars? Like what would people try to even put down at that point?
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I never give five stars, there is always room for improvement.