Comments on: Why most rating systems suck http://kometbomb.net/2008/01/02/why-most-rating-systems-suck/ Journal of my adventures in Programming, the Internet and Life. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:27:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Antti http://kometbomb.net/2008/01/02/why-most-rating-systems-suck/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Antti Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:42:18 +0000 http://kometbomb.net/2008/01/02/why-most-rating-systems-suck/#comment-148 I give this article rating 4/5 I give this article rating 4/5

]]> By: Dwayne Charrington http://kometbomb.net/2008/01/02/why-most-rating-systems-suck/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Dwayne Charrington Sun, 06 Jan 2008 09:39:38 +0000 http://kometbomb.net/2008/01/02/why-most-rating-systems-suck/#comment-145 Funny you wrote this article. I was planning on using a similar rating feature myself consisting of a 'Thumbs up' or 'Thumbs Down'. Good read. - Dwayne Charrington. http://www.dwaynecharrington.com Funny you wrote this article. I was planning on using a similar rating feature myself consisting of a ‘Thumbs up’ or ‘Thumbs Down’.

Good read.

- Dwayne Charrington.
http://www.dwaynecharrington.com

]]> By: Spuds http://kometbomb.net/2008/01/02/why-most-rating-systems-suck/comment-page-1/#comment-144 Spuds Sun, 06 Jan 2008 06:39:40 +0000 http://kometbomb.net/2008/01/02/why-most-rating-systems-suck/#comment-144 Yeah I like thumbs up/down as well. Yeah I like thumbs up/down as well.

]]> By: Dave http://kometbomb.net/2008/01/02/why-most-rating-systems-suck/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Dave Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:05:39 +0000 http://kometbomb.net/2008/01/02/why-most-rating-systems-suck/#comment-142 The thumbs (which clearly come from stumbleupon) have more than two options. Although there are only two promoted, you can choose from the tools menu to report the page as being in the wrong topic, not appropriate, innacurate, wrong language or broken. I suspect this could be generalised quite well for a wide variety of voting applications. Present two options in an obvious way but supply other options that can be chosen if desired. Going with movies as an example, I might thumb up "Die Hard" because I liked it but I would also want to say "Mindless action" about it. I would also thumb up "The fifth element" but even though it's an action flick starring the same actor, it's not "Mindless action" so hopefully there would be an appropriate option for me to choose. Maybe "Comedy action". I could still just give the movie a thumbs up or a thumbs down but if I want to supply more information to help others know how I rate that movie, I can do it. I think this would avoid both the noise and the bias of the first method and yet enable a smaller data set to provide more accurate results. On a side note, most movie rating systems are not on a scale between one and five... or rather they are, but they allow half-points (usually half-stars) which essentially puts them on a scale between one and ten. This has always bugged me. Why not just make the scale from one to ten ? Bah ! The thumbs (which clearly come from stumbleupon) have more than two options. Although there are only two promoted, you can choose from the tools menu to report the page as being in the wrong topic, not appropriate, innacurate, wrong language or broken.

I suspect this could be generalised quite well for a wide variety of voting applications. Present two options in an obvious way but supply other options that can be chosen if desired.

Going with movies as an example, I might thumb up “Die Hard” because I liked it but I would also want to say “Mindless action” about it. I would also thumb up “The fifth element” but even though it’s an action flick starring the same actor, it’s not “Mindless action” so hopefully there would be an appropriate option for me to choose. Maybe “Comedy action”. I could still just give the movie a thumbs up or a thumbs down but if I want to supply more information to help others know how I rate that movie, I can do it.

I think this would avoid both the noise and the bias of the first method and yet enable a smaller data set to provide more accurate results.

On a side note, most movie rating systems are not on a scale between one and five… or rather they are, but they allow half-points (usually half-stars) which essentially puts them on a scale between one and ten. This has always bugged me. Why not just make the scale from one to ten ? Bah !

]]> By: Akuma http://kometbomb.net/2008/01/02/why-most-rating-systems-suck/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Akuma Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:04:09 +0000 http://kometbomb.net/2008/01/02/why-most-rating-systems-suck/#comment-141 http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/ Have got a unique rating system, you can rate the posts people made with these ratings: Gold star, Agree, Disagree, Awful spelling, Winner, Good idea, Usefull, Funny, Friendly, Unfriendly, Zing, Thanks, Informative and Artistic. It's a pretty cool forum made for the Half-life 2 modification Garry's mod. But its also ther to disucss other games and lifes problems. http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/
Have got a unique rating system, you can rate the posts people made with these ratings: Gold star, Agree, Disagree, Awful spelling, Winner, Good idea, Usefull, Funny, Friendly, Unfriendly, Zing, Thanks, Informative and Artistic.

It’s a pretty cool forum made for the Half-life 2 modification Garry’s mod. But its also ther to disucss other games and lifes problems.

]]> By: jim http://kometbomb.net/2008/01/02/why-most-rating-systems-suck/comment-page-1/#comment-139 jim Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:12:10 +0000 http://kometbomb.net/2008/01/02/why-most-rating-systems-suck/#comment-139 I like the thumbs up or down. Either you like it our you don't. http://www.golfnorwich.com/ I like the thumbs up or down. Either you like it our you don’t.

http://www.golfnorwich.com/

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