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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 104895" data-attributes="member: 891">An ideal situation would be to have reviews without numbers.This reminds me of an old flamewar that happened at renderosity (a 3D artists website) when somebody got a score of 9 out of 10...The victim started a huge flame war that lasted weeks, cost a few admins, and resulted in the person who gave the 9 score getting banned and unbanned a couple of times...In the end they added the ability for artists to post work and not allow people to rate it numericly. Which I always do. They also added the option to comment on work without leaving a number even if the artist left number ratings in. Again when I comment I always leave out the numbers.But the crowd who demanded that all their work be rated 10 or the ratee's get banned are still there and never admitted any wrong doing (in fact at one point they wanted the entire other side of the debate banned and several of those people were before it got cleared up)... And I havent seen a post by the person who had made that original 9 rating in well over a year or more.Anyway...Here we have these numbers over commercial matters. Anytime you have a rating system there are people who demand they get the highest scores and there are people who are willing to be 'paid' in someway to give it to them.You see accusations of reviewer fixing all the time in the restaurant business. Often but not always true. It's appearances that count though.Remove the numbers and reviews becomes a matter of the commentary; which is a lost less 'instant gratification' and thus less prone to this whole affair. Though still able to be abused.</blockquote>

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