introduce the 0.5 star rating system

I like the word eschew, especially when asking people to abstain from sneezing: "Please eschew the achoo". Aside from M@x needing to be the one to decide on making the move, the problem I see is that we have about 12 years of ratings based on the five star system we have (aside from the zero which was once in place).

What I would like to see changed is the ratings descriptions to explicitly indicate subjectivity. For instance, instead of 5 stars "Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music", it could be 5 stars "Tha Shizz imo" and one star "tha Shi*z imo", or words to that effect. Okay, on the masterpiece one you can easily say, well, duh, of course music is subjective and that that's just your opinion, but then other descriptions seem to be telling others how they should think. "Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection", ah, no, maybe not for my collection. "Good, but non-essential", for you, maybe. "Collectors/fans only" Wtf? So only get it if you're a fan of the band or like to collect music from the band (I do know what it means)? "Poor. Only for completionists". Is completionist even a proper word? Well, I guess it is, but I prefer completest. Where it can get worse is when people are rating albums in categories that they aren't familiar with or enjoy (I think there should be an element of rating in comparison to other albums of the same ilk).

Edited by Logan - April 01 2016 at 12:45

^ We all care tremendously, we're just lazy.

^Well the point is that most members have been asking for this implementation for the last 8 years. It's not that anything is broken or anything of that sort...people just want to be able to rate the music with an increased precision.

Sure it's all down to subjective matters, I completely agree. I'm only trying to explain to you why folks want this.

If an album is 3.5 stars to a member, then it's also more precise to rate it with 3.5 stars instead of 3 or 4.
The 'precision argument' is the only one that makes sense.

Guldbamsen wrote: ^Well the point is that most members have been asking for this implementation for the last 8 years. It's not that anything is broken or anything of that sort...people just want to be able to rate the music with an increased precision.

someone should tell them words work best.. worry more about describing.. less about rating I want to know about albums, not what Joe 6 Pack thinks of the album


Edited by micky - April 07 2016 at 16:41