6 Stars?

^ the more albums you know, the more difficult it gets to just pick one favorite. It just becomes a random selection between albums that you like equally well, and mentioning one of them while leaving the others out tells you nothing.

MikeEnRegalia wrote: ^ the more albums you know, the more difficult it gets to just pick one favorite. It just becomes a random selection between albums that you like equally well, and mentioning one of them while leaving the others out tells you nothing.

    
Maybe it should be the album that affected you most then.

I agree with SnowDog and Mike. Your favorite album changes from time to time in my opinion, so if you use it too quick you might regret it later.

progismylife wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: progismylife wrote: MikeEnRegalia wrote: ^ the more albums you know, the more difficult it gets to just pick one favorite. It just becomes a random selection between albums that you like equally well, and mentioning one of them while leaving the others out tells you nothing.      Maybe it should be the album that affected you most then. Impossible to tell. Well then I guess I have no idea what the 6 star review would be used for. IT still is a cool idea. Maybe for masterpieces of prog?

Which are?

progismylife wrote: Well then I guess I have no idea what the 6 star review would be used for. IT still is a cool idea. Maybe for masterpieces of prog?

Of course a general problem of introducing an extra star is: what about the existing ratings? Should we do a mass mailing, informing people that they have to adjust their ratings?

On my website I recently introduced a way to submit more fine grained ratings in the top 10% area:


instead of
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% ... 95% 100%

people can now choose from
0% 20% 40% 50% 60% 65% 70% 75% 80% 85% 90% 91% 92% 93% ... 99% 100%


So rather than extending the existing scale to 110% or 120% you can add more subdivisions in the upper area. Translated to the archives this would mean:

rather than adding a 6th star, introduce a step between 4 and 5 stars (4.5 stars). Old ratings still become less accurate (we don't know whether someone who rated 4 or 5 stars would have chosen 4.5 stars had it then existed), but on average the meaning stays the same.

Any comments?



Edited by MikeEnRegalia - December 23 2006 at 09:33

MikeEnRegalia wrote: progismylife wrote: Well then I guess I have no idea what the 6 star review would be used for. IT still is a cool idea. Maybe for masterpieces of prog? Of course a general problem of introducing an extra star is: what about the existing ratings? Should we do a mass mailing, informing people that they have to adjust their ratings?On my website I recently introduced a way to submit more fine grained ratings in the top 10% area:instead of 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% ... 95% 100%people can now choose from0% 20% 40% 50% 60% 65% 70% 75% 80% 85% 90% 91% 92% 93% ... 99% 100%So rather than extending the existing scale to 110% or 120% you can add more subdivisions in the upper area. Translated to the archives this would mean:rather than adding a 6th star, introduce a step between 4 and 5 stars (4.5 stars). Old ratings still become less accurate (we don't know whether someone who rated 4 or 5 stars would have chosen 4.5 stars had it then existed), but on average the meaning stays the same. Any comments?

    
That was the other thread I was going to start... progarchives definitely needs a 4.5 star option. As is, I feel hardpressed to pick between4 and 5 for an album that I think is not a masterpiece, but is more special than just your average four star album (Aqualung, Fragile, Felona E Sorona, among others).

MikeEnRegalia wrote: `^  of course. I was only thinking like Spinal tap ("ours goes to 11!")

Actually, this is the easy solution...members should be encouraged to think of a fifth star as a rare and special thing, whereas now they're simply discouraged from using it. Marty DiBergi was right!
    

^ why should a "4.9" show as "4"? I mean, it's not what people would expect.

I'm in favor of the addition of a 4.5 star rating too... but in this case I would tend to rate almost every album with 4.5 stars :/
About the 6 star rating hmm... would be hard to choose, and subject to change.

Introducing of .5 stars ratings seems logical and more accurate to me. Actually this is "number of points out of ten" system, which is in my opinion more suitable when evaluating an album.