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    Posted: September 21 2009 at 15:10
To put in perspective how rare 1's and 5's should be I like to think of the 5 points as being a 0-10 scale
 
 
1          2          3          4          5
 
0         2.5        5         7.5       10
 
 
This puts the separations at:
 
1 = 0-1.25
2 = 1.26-3.75
3 = 3.76-6.25
4 = 6.26-8.75
5 = 8.76-10
 
I see that I probably need some of my 5 star albums to the 4 star category.
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2009 at 15:14
Says nothing about how scarce your ratings should be. 

Why are people convinced you should only have a certain amount of 5 star ratings.
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Points: 5208 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2009 at 15:20
There is definitely a tendency to want to review your favorites, and not spend time to really listen to music you don't like. (Both of which skews your list up) But an 8.5/10 album really probably does belong as a 4 star, and I'm not sure all of my ratings reflect that.
 
I'm not changing anything for awhile though, I'd rather do new reviews...Big smile
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Points: 28772 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2009 at 16:01
It's an interesting concept though.  When I write my (very) few reviews I'll try to remember to use it.  I'm feeling a review coming up in the next few weeks so I'll test it out then. Why make it the scale you have instead of, say, 0-2, 2.01-4, 4.01-6, 6.01-8 and 8.01-10 though?  
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Points: 5208 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2009 at 16:03
The point is that equal scaling makes in this way makes 1's and 5's harder to get than 2,3,4 which is the express intent of the site.
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Points: 28772 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2009 at 16:11
Oh, so it's purposefully giving 1 star and 5 star only 1.25 possible points instead of the 2.5 that 2-4 get, I see.
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Points: 1003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 21 2009 at 16:26
I don't see how that scale applies to the 3 star rating, which is supposed to be used for "good" albums.  When I see a scale that is out of 10, I would not think that an album is good if it has a rating of 4/10.  It doesn't fit the description, or at least how I interpret it.

I guess my scaling system would be something closer to this:
1 stars-0 to 1.99
2 stars- 2 to 4.99
3 stars- 5 to 7.99
4 stars-8 to 8.99
5 stars- 9 to 10

Not as balanced as yours, but it roughly fits my existing ratings of albums.  It's actually quite unbalanced actually. LOL

Everyone will interpret the star ratings differently, which is why I just let the accompanying star descriptions guide my grading.

Just my 2 cents. Smile


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Your scale is probably where alot people rate from their gut. I was trying to do something a little more analytical, which is certainly not necessarily better.
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Everyone rates differently, your scale seems nice.
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