For recipes, it also signals effort and provides a hint about quality. There's a lot of low effort, broken, "would anyone enjoy eating this?" recipes out there

For recipes, it also signals effort and provides a hint about quality. There's a lot of low effort, broken, "would anyone enjoy eating this?" recipes out there dumped on recipe sites. A few pages of text says that the author thought the recipe was at least worth that amount of effort, and usually confirms that the author thinks the recipe is at least as good as X other recipes, etc.