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> A lot of my rankings have changed as podcasts often degrade in quality over time I totally agree, some podcasts start off so good but then they are in there

> A lot of my rankings have changed as podcasts often degrade in quality over time I totally agree, some podcasts start off so good but then they are in there to appeal the masses than to stick with their original theme/style. And it becomes really difficult to tell others only listen to this, this and this episode but afterwards its alright. So I am curious how do you rate them(collectively)? Is it just a arbitrary rating system or is there a science/logic behind it? I wish a podcast app could prompt me after each listen to rate the episode and then use that to update the rating of the podcast(as a whole) based on what I personally gave than the public rating system which is very flawed as a recommendation engine. I think this should be fairly easy to incorporate on ones personal website too, a way to let your listening history be personal recommendation engine than we relying on our memory to recommend/suggest. And if you stop listening to it and as episodes pile on, it can clearly drop in rating for you(?) or just go down the list.

surprisetalk 3y ago
Here's some more info about my general rating system: [1] https://taylor.town/2-stars https://taylor.town/2-stars When I rate podcasts, I try to go based on the last ~1 year of episodes. I updated the rankings on my website, but unfortunately, cloudflare is not letting me deploy :( Feel free to email me at hello@taylor.town if you'd like more recs >I think this should be fairly easy to incorporate on ones personal website too, a way to let your listening history be personal recommendation engine than we relying on our memory to recommend/suggest. If you look at my past newsletters, I used to do something like this with individual episodes: [2] https://taylor.town/town-hall-0006 https://taylor.town/town-hall-0006 Unfortunately, it's time-consuming, and my readers didn't really care for the granularity much. I'd be interested in an automated solution though.
- vidyesh 3y ago
  Thanks for explaining your rating system. One last question, why podcast episodes are a 3-stars based rating system while everything else is 5-stars rating system?
  - surprisetalk 3y ago
    Great question! I only shared episodes that were >2-stars, so I truncated the first two stars :)

surprisetalk 3y ago

Here's some more info about my general rating system: [1] https://taylor.town/2-stars https://taylor.town/2-stars When I rate podcasts, I try to go based on the last ~1 year of episodes. I updated the rankings on my website, but unfortunately, cloudflare is not letting me deploy :( Feel free to email me at hello@taylor.town if you'd like more recs >I think this should be fairly easy to incorporate on ones personal website too, a way to let your listening history be personal recommendation engine than we relying on our memory to recommend/suggest. If you look at my past newsletters, I used to do something like this with individual episodes: [2] https://taylor.town/town-hall-0006 https://taylor.town/town-hall-0006 Unfortunately, it's time-consuming, and my readers didn't really care for the granularity much. I'd be interested in an automated solution though.

vidyesh 3y ago
Thanks for explaining your rating system. One last question, why podcast episodes are a 3-stars based rating system while everything else is 5-stars rating system?
- surprisetalk 3y ago
  Great question! I only shared episodes that were >2-stars, so I truncated the first two stars :)