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Jordus wrote:

RobertJasiek wrote:IMO, a 1 to 5 "star" ranking system has these disadvantages:

1) 1 as the minimum can be confused with expressing something positive.

AFAIK, it is common knowledge that in a standard 1-5 ranking system that 1 is referred to as bad and 5 as good. We can thank amazon.com for that one...

I tend to agree with Robert on this point, and exactly because of Amazon.

Whenever I've attempted to rate an Amazon purchase with a poor rating, they still try to recommend similar books, as if I had given it some positive rating.

And for a while, they had no ability to remove a rating (Netflix has this same problem now).

xed_over wrote:
Whenever I've attempted to rate an Amazon purchase with a poor rating, they still try to recommend similar books, as if I had given it some positive rating.

I don't think they're recommending based on your rating, but rather based on the fact that you've purchased it.

My new rating sytem:
1 2 3 4 5

Joaz Banbeck wrote:My new rating sytem:
1 2 3 4 5

I rate this new ratings system: 5

Joaz Banbeck wrote:My new rating sytem:
1 2 3 4 5

Horrible idea. --

kirkmc wrote:

xed_over wrote:
Whenever I've attempted to rate an Amazon purchase with a poor rating, they still try to recommend similar books, as if I had given it some positive rating.

I don't think they're recommending based on your rating, but rather based on the fact that you've purchased it.

purchased, not purchased, own, don't own -- it doesn't matter. If you touch a star, they think you're interested in it, and they say so when you follow the "why was this recommended?" link.

xed_over wrote:purchased, not purchased, own, don't own -- it doesn't matter. If you touch a star, they think you're interested in it, and they say so when you follow the "why was this recommended?" link.

It isn't touching the star that does it. Viewing the item puts it on the list. I view something and I get recommendations for like products. But that is just corporate advertising and sales at its best...

A thumb up, , neutral or thumbdown would work for me. But for book reviews, what's recommended for beginners wouldn't be recommended for strong dan players so reducing a recommendation to one dimension is alway problematical.