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<blockquote data-quote="malladin" data-source="post: 791454" data-attributes="member: 8230"><p>I also think the score system is too restrictive.</p><p></p><p>As an old Vampire player, I've grown up with the concept that in a 5 star rating, 1 is poor, 2 is average, 3 is good, 4 excellent and 5 mindblowing. The system here puts 3 as average, thus giving you much less leeway when determining how good a good product is. </p><p></p><p>If a reveiwer likes a product, but doesn't think it's amazing, they have to give it 4 stars, instead of choosing between 3 or 4. 5 is also over used because of this - a very good product will get 5 stars when it probably should get 4.</p><p></p><p>Hence you rarely see 1s or 2s because these tend to tell the buyer 'don't touch this with a barge pole'. The overall standard is not really that bad in the industry at the moment, so you will only see a couple of products come up as being this bad. I don't believe that anyone would really suggest that they really perceive there to be a massive difference between 1 and 2 star ratings, and therefore a simple 1 for anything below par would surfice.</p><p></p><p>That said, I can't see how you'd change it without asking all the reviewers to go back over their earlier reviews and re-score them. For many, particularly the staff reviewers who've done a hat full of reviews, this would be too big a job to be practical.</p><p></p><p>Just some thoughts...</p><p></p><p>Ben</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="malladin, post: 791454, member: 8230"] I also think the score system is too restrictive. As an old Vampire player, I've grown up with the concept that in a 5 star rating, 1 is poor, 2 is average, 3 is good, 4 excellent and 5 mindblowing. The system here puts 3 as average, thus giving you much less leeway when determining how good a good product is. If a reveiwer likes a product, but doesn't think it's amazing, they have to give it 4 stars, instead of choosing between 3 or 4. 5 is also over used because of this - a very good product will get 5 stars when it probably should get 4. Hence you rarely see 1s or 2s because these tend to tell the buyer 'don't touch this with a barge pole'. The overall standard is not really that bad in the industry at the moment, so you will only see a couple of products come up as being this bad. I don't believe that anyone would really suggest that they really perceive there to be a massive difference between 1 and 2 star ratings, and therefore a simple 1 for anything below par would surfice. That said, I can't see how you'd change it without asking all the reviewers to go back over their earlier reviews and re-score them. For many, particularly the staff reviewers who've done a hat full of reviews, this would be too big a job to be practical. Just some thoughts... Ben [/QUOTE]
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