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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arnwyn" data-source="post: 1733638" data-attributes="member: 7701">A very strange response, especially coming from a reviewer.A 6-10 on the 1-10 ENnie scale is obviously not the same as a 1-5... unless whoever wrote the instructions for ENnie voting was completely incompetent.The 6-10 rating is obviously a "higher than average" mark. Did you not stop to think that most people rate products that they are familiar with a higher than average mark for a good reason? Certainly, because they are ENnie nominated, a higher than average rating is a likely possibility. As well, I think that people who "are familiar with" the different products and feel comfortable enough to rate them in the ENnies likely bought and own them - and thus are more likely to "like" the books that they bought (or, alternatively, are likely to at least validate their own choice/opinion of a book they bought and rate it above average).Having a 1-5 scale will instead result in a whole lot of 4's and 5's. Not a particularly valuable result, IMO, especially if a lot of books are close in the running. So, instead of a lot of 6-10's, you'll end up with a lot of 4's and 5's - well, I guess 1-3 isn't used a lot. So heck, let's just follow through to the logical conclusion, and just have 1's and 2's. Brilliant.(And, none of this changes the fact that the 1-5 star scale is extremely granular and over-limiting, as I said in my first post. Nothing wrong with that in the reviews section, where one should read the actual review to get real value from the review - but it's wholly inappropriate for the actual ENnie voting.)So no, Crothian, it doesn't make sense to "get rid of half the numbers that aren't used". (Are you sure you had something to do with the ENnies? Because your response leads me to believe that you're not entirely sure what you're talking about. Hmmm...)</blockquote>

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