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by crankylinuxuser 2318 days ago
Thats why I turn my rating into a 1(lowest) or 5(highest).

I binary-ize any score that isn't already a yes/no, because thats what every score turns into.

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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-r... [1] https://www.geek.com/news/google-realizes-youtube-star-ratin...

I totally should do that. I just can't.

It's wrong god damnit! Five stars should mean five stars.