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by eis 1094 days ago
I fear the suggestion at the end of the article to protest the system by giving only 5 star reviews does nothing apart from increasing the rating inflation that it talked about earlier. You will never get 100% of people to join in this 5-star-or-bust activity so instead of 4.8 being the minimum acceptable "actually good" rating it'll be 4.85 or 4.9 or whatever. It just moves the threshold a bit but it doesn't change the fact that it's not a linear 1 to 5 rating system.