[legitster]

The five-star review was a mistake.

Every product and service now sits on a scale between 4.1 and 4.9. It's a useless metric that has inflated beyond comprehension.

Do anything else. Use a Net Promoter Score. Or binary thumbs up/down.

Personally, I think more things should be based on percentiles. If IGN wants to say a game is a 7/10 it should mean the game is better than 70% of other games they have reviewed.

[dabinat]

I stayed at an Airbnb once where they had a sign on the fridge saying that they considered anything less than 5 stars to be a negative review.

[legitster]

To maintain your Airbnb Superhost status, it's required to maintain an overall rating of 4.8 stars or higher.

So, yeah. It's not just that hosts are egotistical. Airbnb punishes you for 4 star reviews.

[iamalizard]

When someone says "7/10", what do they mean? It could be "it's pretty good but not spectacular" or "it's barely usable but I've seen much, much worse". I agree that we need a new system.

[legitster]

I forgot where I heard it, but I remember a game journalist saying that they preferred 7/10 games to 10/10 games. And I just wanted to scream at them. "Then fix how you rate games!"