[nicktal]

If it makes you feel any better, I've held the opinion for years now that ratings are broken across most services on the web. Jeff Bezos even acknowledged as much in a famous essay of his on how the distribution of one-to-five star ratings settle over time. Still, every new service sticks to the binary thumbs-up/down model or five-star. I'm sure you probably know the pitfalls of each, so good luck to you. I'm hoping you'll become the Disqus of ratings for every site. The analogy holds, interestingly, in my mind: comments had no consistency along UX or reputation before Disqus came along.

[flipside]

I used to start pitches by telling people we're fixing rating systems, that was usually enough to get people's attention.

I think you're talking about Yahoo and the J-curve, couldn't find anything by Bezos.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, we went through a phase of pitching ourselves as "Disqus for ratings" but the problem was it's hit or miss with people.

[npguy]

the one issue I see, is that the number of movies is not so large for current human feedback systems to fail.

Ratings in general is a different story though.

[fhe]

I'd love to read that Jeff Bezos essay. A google search didn't find it. Do you have the link to it, or do you remember the title? Thanks.