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    Posted: January 27 2006 at 10:52

in my opinion it is better that reviews should be on 10 stars.if someone wants to put 3,5 stars on an album he must put 3 or 4 stars.but if he could judje in 10 stars he could put 7.

well the lists of the best albums would be more accurate

excuse my bad english
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Yes, that would be good, there would be more differences within the various albums. Now there are many albums, rated the same, but which are actually totally different in their degree of brilliance.

0%-100% would also be a good idea!

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yes thats a good idea but kind of difficult to make a review
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yeah, probably 100 possibilities are too much

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10 stars would be good in principle, but what would you do about all the existing ratings?

I guess all you could do is double their existing rating, but then you'd end up with a load of 10 out of 10s, which would definitely be wrong.
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Originally posted by thanos thanos wrote:

in my opinion it is better that reviews should be on 10 stars.if someone wants to put 3,5 stars on an album he must put 3 or 4 stars.but if he could judje in 10 stars he could put 7.

well the lists of the best albums would be more accurate

excuse my bad english

I prefer 15 steps:

1 2 3  4 5 6  7 8 9  10 11 12  13 14 15
  *      *      *       *         *

The big advantages:

  • More than one step between two stars
  • The masterpiece category (5 stars) has three steps - that enables you to be very selective for the real masterpieces (15), but you still have two steps for other albums which you consider to be really essential.
  • The existing ratings could be better converted to this schema. With 10 steps you get either a too high, or too low rating.
  • The schema is not as complicated as it looks.
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Originally posted by thanos thanos wrote:

in my opinion it is better that reviews should be on 10 stars.if someone wants to put 3,5 stars on an album he must put 3 or 4 stars.but if he could judje in 10 stars he could put 7.

well the lists of the best albums would be more accurate

excuse my bad english

But what if I want to put a 7.5 rating? 

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Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Originally posted by thanos thanos wrote:


in my opinion it is better that reviews should be on 10 stars.if someone wants to put 3,5 stars on an album he must put 3 or 4 stars.but if he could judje in 10 stars he could put 7.


well the lists of the best albums would be more accurate


excuse my bad english



I prefer 15 steps:


1 2 3  4 5 6  7 8 9  10 11 12  13 14 15<FONT face="Courier New" color=#009900 size=4>  *      *      *       *         *


<FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000000 size=2>The big advantages:



  • <FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>More than one step between two stars

  • <FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>The masterpiece category (5 stars) has three steps - that enables you to be very selective for the real masterpieces (15), but you still have two steps for other albums which you consider to be really essential.

  • <FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>The existing ratings could be better converted to this schema. With 10 steps you get either a too high, or too low rating.

  • <FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>The schema is not as complicated as it looks.


good idea

basic school system, I think it will work really well.





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"basic school system, I think it will work really well".


What schools??


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I like that 1-15 system. Just like the regular five stars, but more accurate.
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Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Originally posted by thanos thanos wrote:

in my opinion it is better that reviews should be on 10 stars.if someone wants to put 3,5 stars on an album he must put 3 or 4 stars.but if he could judje in 10 stars he could put 7.

well the lists of the best albums would be more accurate

excuse my bad english

I prefer 15 steps:

1 2 3  4 5 6  7 8 9  10 11 12  13 14 15
  *      *      *       *         *

The big advantages:

  • More than one step between two stars
  • The masterpiece category (5 stars) has three steps - that enables you to be very selective for the real masterpieces (15), but you still have two steps for other albums which you consider to be really essential.
  • The existing ratings could be better converted to this schema. With 10 steps you get either a too high, or too low rating.
  • The schema is not as complicated as it looks.

Nice one, Mike!

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It seems like a really good idea. There are way to many 5 stars albums as it is, meaning it's to easy to rate an album you have heard maybe just a few times much to high. It would problaby be a lot of 8 and 9 stars ratings aswell as maybe 2 and 3 stars but I believe is harder to give maximum score without twisting your brain a bit. 
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Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Originally posted by thanos thanos wrote:

in my opinion it is better that reviews should be on 10 stars.if someone wants to put 3,5 stars on an album he must put 3 or 4 stars.but if he could judje in 10 stars he could put 7.

well the lists of the best albums would be more accurate

excuse my bad english

I prefer 15 steps:

1 2 3  4 5 6  7 8 9  10 11 12  13 14 15
  *      *      *       *         *

The big advantages:

  • More than one step between two stars
  • The masterpiece category (5 stars) has three steps - that enables you to be very selective for the real masterpieces (15), but you still have two steps for other albums which you consider to be really essential.
  • The existing ratings could be better converted to this schema. With 10 steps you get either a too high, or too low rating.
  • The schema is not as complicated as it looks.

Nice one, Mike!

It's pretty too.

Yeah - I like that idea as well!

Although I'm a bigger fan of classic 10 star ratings..

but the 15 are far better then the darn 5 stars
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What about an 1.5, 2.5, 3.5 and 4.5 option along with the standard 1,2,3,4,5 option. Like this:

5.0 out of 5 stars

4.5 out of 5 stars

4.0 out of 5 stars

3.5 out of 5 stars

3.0 out of 5 stars

2.5 out of 5 stars

1.5 out of 5 stars

Instead of this:

5.0 out of 5 stars

4.0 out of 5 stars

3.0 out of 5 stars

Also, the average rating of an album would be more accurate.



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would be kind of a 10 star rating.

But this could work well. Many reviewers wrote anything like 4.5, etc, but then they gave it 4 stars. Well, anyone would have to check every review and change it then. That would be a possibility to introduce a 10 star system without deleting all the ratings and the average rating for the albums from 1-5 would remain as well.

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well yes the 15 star idea is pretty nice!!!

as far as the older reviews are concerned,thats a problem...
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5, 10, 15 - it is all silly.

Any attempt to "grade" Art is just absurd. If you have something to say - say it, forget the grades.

Would you grade paintings? sculptures? poems?
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Originally posted by Jazzis Jazzis wrote:

5, 10, 15 - it is all silly.

Any attempt to "grade" Art is just absurd. If you have something to say - say it, forget the grades.

Would you grade paintings? sculptures? poems?

sure. As long as you keep in mind that the ratings are subjective, they can be used for many useful things. One of them is recommendations.
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Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Originally posted by Jazzis Jazzis wrote:

yes i agree

5, 10, 15 - it is all silly.

Any attempt to "grade" Art is just absurd. If you have something to say - say it, forget the grades.

Would you grade paintings? sculptures? poems?

sure. As long as you keep in mind that the ratings are subjective, they can be used for many useful things. One of them is recommendations.
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I strongly support a 10-star system for good reasons. The number one reason is that under the 5 star system, people tend to rate 5 starts to any album they like-- although that album may not be a 'master-piece'. What they really want to do is put a 4.5 star rating. Its not possible in the 5 star system.

Secondly, in the 5 star system-- there is no way you can give an album a 50-50 credit/discredit. The flaw is built-in for you to either put a nice- 50/50 album to either a better album rank or worse album rank.


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