When I rate things it's usually an "overall" rating, rather than weigh one dimension disproportionately. Which is why I would almost never grant a 5-star rating to something. But I'll dish out 2, 3 and some 4s regularly.
That is only you, I can't use that information. Like you might be taking into consideration "Special effects were 3 on their own". Whereas my Mum would never even consider that as a thing which influences the rating.
Which is fine, because the recommendation engine should be using your history, not someone else's. They gave it a 5, you have it a 1. They will see recommendations for similar movies and you won't.
This seems like pure difficulty for me. When I think of thumbs up / down metrics I think in terms of "would I endorse this?" A movie like "Suicide Squad" was (to me at least) highly enjoyable, though I thought it objectively had many problems with plot and delivery. I would probably give it 3 stars, which is relatively neutral for me (or leave it altogether unrated). If it were thumbs up/down, I would probably have t…
I think you are an anomalous user. I'm not sure why you're OK with rating 1-5 stars but not a thumbsup or down. I think you're just upset because they are changing.
> I think you're just upset because they are changing.
This is actually rude of you, bordering on ridicule. He explained very clearly why he is dissatisfied.
The problem is that is your opinion of a 5-star system. Everybody approaches them differently. Some people give everything they like 5 stars, everything they kind of like 4 stars and just don't vote on everything else. Some people just do 5 for like and 1 for dislike. The 10-point system on IMDB is even worse.
but that's the problem with 5-star systems - everyone uses them differently. Like/dislike leaves little room for ambiguity.
I think you should distribute your TMDB shilling across a few more accounts, mate. I actually recognized your username from one of your shills I found so bad that I linked it to a buddy of mine. Just some of your recent posts on HN: > why would i participate on dumb backup of database, > done without my consent (OP stole 14 years of my posts), > when I can go to proper movie database with discussions, > imported rati…
it's related to discussion for people who prefer normal star ratings instead of retarded thumbs up, so not sure what's your problem, also not sure what's your definition of shill, but I doubt it's someone who doesn't even bother to provide link for his potential victims and who is just regular user of some website where he was forced to move from IMDb not sure where you got some fake outrage from my post, when some t…
> judging by your language you are most likely shill
Please keep this sort of tit-for-tat off HN.
I don't think you're a spammer and it's ok to occasionally promote your own stuff on HN in relevant contexts, but if you do it too much then other readers here will start to strenuously object.
it's related to discussion for people who prefer normal star ratings instead of retarded thumbs up, so not sure what's your problem, also not sure what's your definition of shill, but I doubt it's someone who doesn't even bother to provide link for his potential victims and who is just regular user of some website where he was forced to move from IMDb not sure where you got some fake outrage from my post, when some t…
> judging by your language you are most likely shill Please keep this sort of tit-for-tat off HN. I don't think you're a spammer and it's ok to occasionally promote your own stuff on HN in relevant contexts, but if you do it too much then other readers here will start to strenuously object.
except it's not even my stuff, I am just annoyed IMDb user who moved to TMDb and just wanna let know other people about alternative so we can all continue discussing movies, after all it's in my best interest to attract as many users as possible so I can have more people to discuss with even when I have zero monetary benefit from it and I am in no way affiliated with TMDb other than any other user, heck I don't even help editing movies there, no Mod, nothing...
> judging by your language you are most likely shill Please keep this sort of tit-for-tat off HN. I don't think you're a spammer and it's ok to occasionally promote your own stuff on HN in relevant contexts, but if you do it too much then other readers here will start to strenuously object.
except it's not even my stuff, I am just annoyed IMDb user who moved to TMDb and just wanna let know other people about alternative so we can all continue discussing movies, after all it's in my best interest to attract as many users as possible so I can have more people to discuss with even when I have zero monetary benefit from it and I am in no way affiliated with TMDb other than any other user, heck I don't even…
That's totally fine! But if users have noticed it enough to get annoyed it might mean you were mentioning it excessively. In that case the solution is simply to do so a bit less, and make sure the context is a good and relevant one when you do.
I like giving weight to my vote. 3 stars = "not a bad movie, but wouldn't recommend" 4 starts = "decent movie, would recommend" 5 stars = "great movie, would definitely recommend" A binary choice doesn't have any weight to it.
I don't think there's a need for weight since there are many reviewers. The weight is the percentage of people who thumbed it up.
How does weight have anything to do with amount of reviewers? Those are completely unrelated metrics.