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by jgmmo 4040 days ago
Very torn as to whether star rankings, or any type of ranking, are helpful or not.

What does 1 star mean? Never used that language before? once twice?

What's 5 star? Expert? Would the inventor of a language get 5 stars? Then it doesn't seem likely you can have anything a 5 star..

It's just so subjective what it means to the person. I feel the smarter folks will actually tend to under-rank themselves because they are so aware of the things they don't know.