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David Celis

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Why I Hate Five-Star Ratings

When I was originally developing goodbre.ws (and, later, recommendable), the very first thing I had to decide was how users would rate items. Would I give them a standard five star system? Maybe something with more granularity, like allowing for half stars? Or perhaps the humble thumbs up or down? Truth be told, going with a binary thumbs up or down system of likes and dislikes was an easy choice. After all, I hate the five-star rating system.