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		DanBC on Aug 22, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Ratings Systems Don't Work The article mentions an important point about 5 star systems - people tend to only use 5 stars or 1 star. This is sort of shown with the histograms. A 2 axis system seems like a good idea. But I'd like to see it with 3 options per access - [UP] [INDIFFERENT] [DOWN]. I'm also interested to know how the system will cope with "controversial" films ( life of brian, for example) where some people are going to downvote whether they've seen it or not. And they'll campaign and ask all their friends to downvote too.

guard-of-terra on Aug 22, 2012 [–]

I'd say people only use "5" (really liked, would recommend) and "meh" (spent some time, would not recommend)

In their example, blade runner has sligtly more "meh" votes and starship troopers is mostly "meh"

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