MrHotMoms
11.23.09 | meant 1-5 in the description |
shindip
11.23.09 | aw cmon, 1 is sooo much better than 3 |
EVedder27
11.23.09 | I kind of agree but I think it would be hard to decide what to give what |
YouAreMySilence
11.23.09 | Completly agree! |
cvlts
11.23.09 | the rating system would be ALLL fucked up if we did that though |
theacademy
11.23.09 | most people don't realize that 3 is average, not 2.5 |
MrHotMoms
11.23.09 | the life is genocide - why?
theacademy - how is 3 average if the site labels 2.5 as average.. |
cvlts
11.23.09 | the ratings on your profile would become a mess and it would be a bitch to streamline the ratings for particular albums w/reviews on them. |
theacademy
11.23.09 | 5
4.5
4
3.5
3-------------Middle
2.5
2
1.5
1 |
AnotherBrick
11.23.09 | you know what i dont understand? how do some albums get rated a .5? |
theacademy
11.23.09 | i think they changed the rating system but kept the old .5 ratings |
dankeyes11
11.23.09 | When they say average, it doesn't literally mean the average score. It's just another descriptive for the album, really.
But, yes, 3 is the average score.
The ratings should go from 0-5 (as dumb as that is). That way, 2.5 would be average. |
KritikalMotion
11.23.09 | i dont think i could cope with more options |
AnotherBrick
11.23.09 | ya but you cant really rate something a 0 |
Masochist
11.23.09 | If you review an album, you can choose to rate it an oh-point-five.
I don't understand how albums are rated 0.0, though... |
cvlts
11.23.09 | ^i agree
but people will disagree though |
Masochist
11.23.09 | At least...that's how I remember it. Perhaps theacademy is correct. |
theacademy
11.23.09 | awful should = 0
average should = 2.5 (or 5)
classic should = 5 (or 10)
but ratings on this site r stupid to begin with. most specifically, a 4.4 rating with x amount of votes you cant give a 1 or 1.5 to but a 4.3 rating with x amount of votes you can. |
Masochist
11.23.09 | theacademy - Hmmm...never noticed that. Kind of sucks, because I know a few people who absolutely abhor 'OK Computer' but would never express it if they came to this site. |
qwe3
11.23.09 | i really dont think we need a ranking for every 10th decimal. |
PeteyThePistol
11.23.09 | Chris Pennie is a douche!!!! Sorry angry DEP fan, I really need to give coheed and cambria a listen |
theacademy
11.23.09 | and btw it's "rating options" but no big deal |
PeteyThePistol
11.23.09 | I know I wanted to be off topic and discuss coheed, I just wanted to be popular :( |
RedSky
11.23.09 | For under 3.5 you don't need to be any more precise, but for something like 3.8->5 you should really be able to be more precise. There's a world of difference in that range. |
TMobotron
11.23.09 | RedSky said it about there being a world of difference, but IDK if I would actually want it to change, I like the system now and it gets balanced out with all the ratings. |
RedSky
11.23.09 | Yeah, I think you need to be able to strike a balance between being precise and changing the whole discourse to meaningless arguments about whether an album deserves 3.9 or 3.95.
Think something like adding 3.75, 4.25 and 4.75 as options would work great. |
TheyTookOurJobs
11.23.09 | 1 owns |
TheyTookOurJobs
11.23.09 | oh whoops
i was meant to say 2 owns |
PaperTigers
11.23.09 | There's already way too much of a focus on numerical ratings on this site. |
theacademy
02.09.13 | lol original mrhotmoms was way ahead of his time |
Trebor.
02.09.13 | Dude it's all arbitrary, obviously you're going to like certain albums more or less in the same rating group, we can't have
an individual rating, the ratings are supposed to be somewhat broad |
theacademy
02.09.13 | dude u cant reason with hotmoms the kids a legend in the game |
Trebor.
02.09.13 | He predicted the future |
SmokingTheClouds
02.09.13 | Does anyone actually rate albums based on the rating numbers description, over what they interrupt the numbers rating as? I always looked at it like a mark on an educational exam. Anything below 3 is bad. 3 is a bare pass (3 = average), etc. |
foxblood
02.09.13 | Sputnik Needs More Ranking Opeth |
toxin.
02.09.13 | glad I'm not the only one who keeps reading that |
foxblood
02.09.13 | but yeah he definitely predicted the future |
toxin.
02.09.13 | a 3 only seems average because you're not actively (generally) looking for stuff you won't like. So it'll seem like something that's a 2.5 is "bad" because it's just average and you're not really looking for something average. So yeah good because your average. I use the rating system more or less for my reviews anyways |