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Re:She Gave a Hotel a Mediocre Review. Then Came the Badgering by candiddevmike on Monday December 18, 2023 @11:48PM (#38691938)
Counterpoint: steam reviews with their binary choice result in a better aggregate experience and remove the need for bell curves.

Binary choice leaves less room for interpretation and fuzzy ness, you either like something or you don't.

Re:She Gave a Hotel a Mediocre Review. Then Came the Badgering by labster on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @12:18AM (#38692127)
Steam has other problems with user submitted genre tags. Make a DLC that people thought under-delivered and you be may surprised to learn that you shipped a hentai game. Though that is definitely on the user’s side.
Re:She Gave a Hotel a Mediocre Review. Then Came the Badgering by fwmcbumcrumble on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @12:38AM (#38692245)
Positive negative and meh is my preferred. Some things aren’t great, but were cheap enough to justify it.

Maybe make it a really tiny box in the middle that you need to zoom in to click to encourage mostly positive or negative reviews.

Re:She Gave a Hotel a Mediocre Review. Then Came the Badgering by subroutine on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @12:52AM (#38692321)
How about...

    - thumb down
    - thumb up
    - two thumbs up
Re:She Gave a Hotel a Mediocre Review. Then Came the Badgering by subroutine on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @12:50AM (#38692311)
I've heard the arguments for switching to binary choice (netflix also did a big writeup about it), but I'd still prefer the ability to give a bit more nuance in my rating. It feels weird giving a movie that is okay and a movie that is excellent the same rating.

Rotten Tomatoes goes further to emphasize the "love it or hate it" dichotomy - they display a ripe red tomato for a movie with a rating of 60 and a splattered green tomato for a movie with a score of 59.

Re:She Gave a Hotel a Mediocre Review. Then Came the Badgering by joshspankit on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @08:19AM (#38695161)
You might prefer binary choice on more granular criteria: Like the pacing of the overall plot, dislike the performance of the antagonist