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I've been in favor of up/down for years over x out of 5 or x out of 10. The core reasoning is: it captures your overall emotional response to something very s
by derrekl 10y ago
I've been in favor of up/down for years over x out of 5 or x out of 10. The core reasoning is: it captures your overall emotional response to something very succinctly. Sure you might hate X more than Y or like A more than you like B, but you'll return, revisit, recommend all the things you like and not do so for the things you don't like. When you can rate out of 5 or 10 you get thrown into a sort of tizzy trying to rationalize a system of what is 1 star, 2 stars, etc. Do you subtract a star because you think something is overpriced even though you like it? Do you subtract a star because it's hard to get it (say slow delivery) even though you like it? Basically you want to start to categorize every facet of a product/service which becomes complicated quickly. Thumbs up/down avoids all that and I think over many hundreds or thousands of reviews the ratio of up to down will provide a good probability indicator of liking something or not.
- echelon 10y agoThis benefits those that want to data mine such data, not those that want to meticulously catalog their interests. This is one of my biggest gripes with music services such as Google Play. Thumbs up/down ratings are great for Google, but suck for me, the listener, as I wish to construct a detailed, per-song breakdown of my musical tastes.
- derrekl 10y agoI don't believe up/down should replace written reviews, but neither does an x out of 5 or 10 system. Written reviews are the place for that in depth analysis. That said I'm not familiar with Google Play and don't know if they have written reviews or not.
- michaelmrose 10y agoIf they captured and displayed to the user how many users watched it vs how many ups and downs it might give users a better indication.
- derrekl 10y agoThat's a pretty interesting idea. It would indicate a sort of apathy rating. Not that a product or service with a high apathy rating is bad - might actually be good for certain things.