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Why take 60% of the rating space up by negative ratings? It seems like what you really care about is degrees of goodness. An alternative approach: 1 - I disli
by macobo 6y ago
Why take 60% of the rating space up by negative ratings? It seems like what you really care about is degrees of goodness.
An alternative approach:
1 - I disliked it.
2 - It's OK
3 - This is good
4 - This is great
5 - This is a must-read
- SamBam 6y agoIt's the problem with star systems, which is that we'll always have different definitions. Your 3s are living next to the other poster's 3s and mean very different things. That said, I think the world has also suffered from ratings inflation. I tend to assume anything under a 4 means "bad" or "meh" myself.
- hipnoizz 6y agoThis is exactly the way the current Goodreads rating is supposed to work (and I'm personally OK with it). But my guesstimate is that for 95% Goodreads users everything below 4 stars means that the book sucks.
- SECProto 6y agoHow do you know that's how the rating system is "supposed" to work?
- ThePadawan 6y ago(Not parent) If you go to rate a book on good reads and hover over each of the the 5 stars, here are the "title" attributes of the links: * title="did not like it" * title="it was ok" * title="liked it" * title="really liked it" * title="it was amazing"
- SECProto 6y agoInteresting, thanks. I use the app mainly, and it doesn't have those descriptors as far as I know. I think it's interesting to have the middle/neautral rating described (3 star, middle of the range available) as "liked it" (a positive response).