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Interesting article but it's still arbitrary. I don't think it solves the problem still. What it boils down to is trusting the raters. This is the only way to g
by Stonewall9093 14y ago
Interesting article but it's still arbitrary. I don't think it solves the problem still. What it boils down to is trusting the raters. This is the only way to get by spam, ignorance, and trolling.
I think the solution is knowing who is rating what you're looking at. In the old sense - "Quality over quanitty." I don't need to know what the whole world gave it, just a few people who I've come to trust. We're trying to do this here: www.criticrania.com.
I think this is the only real way around this problem.
- droithomme 14y agoYeah, it makes the bold generic claim to answer "why [all] rating systems don't work", makes the bizarre claim that histograms that show the distribution are "worse" than a scalar mean, and then presents as a solution "We've solved the generic problem by doing two things: adding a 'rewatchable' rating, and plotted it against general quality rating as a scatter plot." Rewatchable is irrelevant to things that aren't movies. The scatter plot is only relevant if the correlation between the two is important, but the given graphs don't support that the correlation has meaningful information beyond that people who like a movie are more likely to want to rewatch it, which is a correlation that is likely consistent across all movies in their dataset and conveys little information about any particular movie.