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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turjan" data-source="post: 133796" data-attributes="member: 3477">Well, this may be out of place if I consider the other posts in this thread, but I'm actually quite content with the reviews on this site. The reason for this may be that I actually judge each review on its own merits.Why I like the reviews as they are...I disregard reviews which don't give away any information about the contents, because I don't know whether the reviewer actually read the module.I disregard reviews given by players who actually didn't read the modules, because I don't know how much time the DM spent in order to get his players into such an enthusiastic or murderous mood <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.I don't have any problems with reviews by those people whose repertoire of ratings consists of either 5 or 2 points (depending on their mood <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />), as long as they give a detailed description of the product. This lets me judge myself whether I like those details or not.I like those reviews best which tell me exactly on which details a reviewer based his final judgement, and how important these details were for his judgement. If the result is mainly based on price and artwork, I can do my own adjustments to the rating.Any suggestions though?Well, I think the mixture of staff reviews and fan reviews is a good one, anyway. This means that even those products may have a chance to get some coverage which otherwise wouldn't get any mention at all, due to time restrictions. But...I think, the readers (me included) should make more use of the "commentary" function. This is a good place to air one's concerns.The rating system needs some tweaking though. All these thoughts about median or mean, which were made above, don't lead to anything productive. If you simply look at the worst 10 products, you will see, that some of them still get ratings higher than 3 (which should be above average <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />), while the list of the best 10 still contains products with ratings below 4. I don't honestly think a median would change this general picture.Fact is, you won't get many fan reviews of bad products. Bad products are simply not bought in the first place. This leaves the actual differentiation scale shrunk to the range of 3 to 5. Therefore, I'd suggest to broaden the range from 0 to 10, or, if you don't want to lose the compatibility to the old system with only 5 points, allow digits; either just 0.5 steps or even more detailed. This would bring back some differentiation to the now more or less general rating of 3.8, with a few exceptions <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.Turjan</blockquote>

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