Which again doesn't solve the problem of people being more likely to rate high-brow oscar type things with more stars even if they didn't really enjoy watching

Which again doesn't solve the problem of people being more likely to rate high-brow oscar type things with more stars even if they didn't really enjoy watching them, and more hesitant to rate light or slapstick things the same way. It's the same reason why so many people's to watch queue is filled with documentaries and profound movies they feel they should watch, but most of the time when they turn it on they flip on a simple TV show. Whether we want it to or not, like in hotels 5 stars implies a level of quality, not just a level of like. In a scenario, someone was looking for a silly light-hearted movie and I got a silly light-hearted movie. They don't think it deserved "5-stars" so they give it 3 or 4, but in truth it was exactly what they wanted. They want to ensure their data is a pure a signal as possible: did you enjoy it - and having people map things to star ratings adds in noise.