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Re:Facebook To Release A "Like" Button For the Whole Darn In... by johnfn on Thursday March 25, 2010 @11:34PM (#1220190)
True, but I feel like a rating system would be almost universally more telling.
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Re:Facebook To Release A "Like" Button For the Whole Darn In... by aaronbrethorst on Thursday March 25, 2010 @11:38PM (#1220197)
The average rating system is horribly broken: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009/09/five-stars-domina...

edit: to clarify, no YouTube is not "average." But the fact still remains that allowing users to rate a piece of content on a graded scale is 5 stars of FAIL.

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Re:Facebook To Release A "Like" Button For the Whole Darn In... by johnfn on Friday March 26, 2010 @12:13AM (#1220244)
I wouldn't be so fast to dismiss ratings. In the right community, a rating system is really telling. Example: www.rateyourmusic.com. Great website, good ratings, and the peak is usually atound 3-4.
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