This reminds me that Youtube used to have a star rating system, but as you say, it was effectively treated as thumbs up/thumbs down, so they eventually made tha

This reminds me that Youtube used to have a star rating system, but as you say, it was effectively treated as thumbs up/thumbs down, so they eventually made that official. Interestingly though it wasn't quite a simple five stars/one star dichotomy: the original blog post[0] has a dead image, but this one[1] shows that while five stars was overwhelmingly the most common rating, one star and four stars were about equal in second place. [0] https://youtube.googleblog.com/2009/09/five-stars-dominate-ratings.html https://youtube.googleblog.com/2009/09/five-stars-dominate-r... [1] https://www.geek.com/news/google-realizes-youtube-star-ratings-dont-work-912531/ https://www.geek.com/news/google-realizes-youtube-star-ratin...