Review rating system

[Lionelmessi]

In addition to reviews, I wonder if it would be technically possible to have a star rating system to accompany the review because unless you start reading each review for an SP it’s hard to know the general impression first glance
whereas if every time you wrote a review you could include a star rating from 0 to 5 which would add up like you can see in Google review well at least you could already have a general idea of how many reviews are positive and how many aren’t.
It’s just in order to have some form of unified rating system for everyone

 

[GreyPilgrim]

Meh.

Maybe I been around for a while, but I kinda like the variety on display here! You got your glorified porn novellas over here… You got your numberphile acronym check lists over there… Then you got your short and sweets…Your rambling white knights… Your entitled customers… And even some dude who’s obsessed with nipple colors. Go figure.

My point is… all that clunky mess, that’s kinda Merb’s flavor.

But that’s just me. Cheers!

 

[neverbored]

I agree with Pilgrim on this one.

The thing with multi-axis ratings and star ratings, is its so subjective to the reviewer. Your 10/10 could be someone's 3/10. A SP with a low number of votes could easily disapear in the mix... the YMMV aspect also changes things.

Personally, I wish there was more filtering in search results. Ex: ability to filter out past a certain date, or sort by most comments/views or a combination of multiple filtered or add exclusions... but that gets complex really fast.

But ya, merb does indeed require lots of reading to get a hang of it.

 

[LC18]

Hear me out, maybe reviews haven’t been standardize because every human is different and every interaction is as well. A number system doesn’t do justice to that

 

[Sylar]

A number system doesn’t do justice to that

I’d say the same if my face was a 5/10.

This is an insider joke. Those who read the review and have met LC will understand.

 

[LC18]

I’d say the same if my face was a 5/10.

This is an insider joke. Those who read the review and have met LC will understand.

Trying to avoid another 5/10 situation

 

[Lionelmessi]

Hear me out, maybe reviews haven’t been standardize because every human is different and every interaction is as well. A number system doesn’t do justice to that

I get that every person and interaction is unique and the point of a rating system is simply to give structure to all that subjectivity.

For exemple if someone gets 5 great reviews and 5 not-so-great ones, assigning 5 stars to the great ones and 2 stars to the others that would give you an average of 3.5 stars.

That rating reflects the mixed feedback cause you know that out of 10 people, 5 had positive feedback and 5 not so much

When someone has 30 reviews, there’s no way at first glance to know how many of those are actually positive and how many are negative. So a way to do that is to link each review to a star rating that matches its content.

Currently you have to read every single review just to get a sense of the overall experience. If each review translated into a star rating than it would give structure to the feedback and make trends visible at a glance.

It’s about reflecting what’s actually written in the review and quickly understand if the experience described was positive, negative, or somewhere in between.

 

[MCTJ]

Read the reviews.

 

[LC18]

This isn’t Yelp my friend. You are reviewing real humans it can’t be that simple

 

[Lionelmessi]

Read the reviews.

Exactly. The whole idea is to make reading reviews more structured and efficient.

 

[LC18]

Exactly. The whole idea is to make reading reviews more structured and efficient.

Who is complaining besides you?

 

[Lionelmessi]

This isn’t Yelp my friend. You are reviewing real humans it can’t be that simple

The person is already writing a review the point is to know first glance if the review is good, bad or somewhere in between

 

[MCTJ]

Exactly. The whole idea is to make reading reviews more structured and efficient.

I'm analytical too, trust me, but I don't like the idea, for all the reasons mentioned by others in this thread.

 

[LC18]

The person is already writing a review the point is to know first glance if the review is good, bad or somewhere in between

lmao well alright


I think a complete review will tell you more than a few stars. Even if you wanted to standardize it, everyone’s different and a 5 stars for me isn’t the same than a 5 stars experience for Barbie

Some reviewers are also not really credible but their rating will count just as much as others?

 

[Lionelmessi]

Who is complaining besides you ?

Pointing out how something could be improved isn’t complaining — it’s being constructive. And you’re more than welcome to introduce ideas of your own in order to be able to sort out reviews which is the bottom line.

There’s nothing wrong with being more user friendly. It could very well be a binary system color coded where reviews are either good (green) or bad (red) so you already know ahead of time what you’re looking at.

It could also be mandatory to answer the question REPEAT: Yes/No at the end of each review so you would have a tally of how many would repeat or not.

 

[LC18]

Then go ahead and try

 

[hob12]

I never do the number thing because it's just shitty.

 

[Lionelmessi]

Actually, the contribution of different viewpoints made me rethink my suggestion to something more specific.

with every review, it would be required to answer Yes or No to the question “Repeat ?”

The answers would be tallied, so at a glance, you’d know from the reviews how many people would repeat the experience and how many wouldn’t.

That would give a general idea of what the reviews convey. Simple, clear, and instantly useful.

 

[LC18]

Actually, the contribution of different viewpoints made me rethink my suggestion to something more specific.

with every review, it would be required to answer Yes or No to the question “Repeat ?”

The answers would be tallied, so at a glance, you’d know from the reviews how many people would repeat the experience and how many wouldn’t.

That would give a general idea of what the reviews convey. Simple, clear, and instantly useful.

This makes more sense, finally found the solution. Good!

 

[urquell]

It's just fucking lazy, and removes both nuance and particular salient points that may be of value to a person reading the review. If I was only reading how many stars and repeat/not repeat I would abandon this board entirely as being utterly useless except as a limited social outlet. The details are what make the review, and if you can't take the effort to invest 3 minutes in writing a review then you have no business making one, and if you're too lazy to read them then you have absolutely no business complaining about any aspect of whatever encounter you have going forward. what the hell does 3 or 4 stars even mean? Or do you now have to start breaking down stars for each part of the encounter? How is that different than the number scale system that everyone sneers at? If you have to do that, and collate them all, then you might just as well read the reviews. I hate the trend that equates user friendliness with the utter absence of information, service or contact with a human (in general, not just for mongering) and the need to be instantly gratified in 3 seconds or less. Learning about people is not the same as learning about a blender on Amazon. Take the time to read the reviews. It's not more efficient to have a star summary. It's a trap.