What ranking scale are you guys using/recommending?
Re: What ranking scale are you guys using/recommending?
As I said in the other thread a 20pt scale is quite doable, gives good definition if you want a smaller scale, but in the end I think 100pt just works best when you're rating hundreds of shows/films. I don't find it hard to rate out of a hundred. If I rated out of 10, I would have hundreds of films on the same score that shouldn't be. We're not rating for magazine/paper audiences like say a Roger Ebert, where a 4 star system keeps things more simple for the general reader. We're part of a pretty complex recommedation website that prefers higher numbers. A lot of people seem to have trouble giving enough bad scores, again I'm not sure why. There's lots of bad shows and films out there.
Re: What ranking scale are you guys using/recommending?
I came to Criticker from Netflix, so I am manually importing my Netflix ratings, which are 1 to 5 stars.
I translate them to Criticker's 0-100 scale in a fairly straightforward fashion:
1 star -> 0
2 stars -> 25
3 stars -> 50
4 stars -> 75
5 stars -> 100
Netflix suggests the following scale to their users:
1 star - Hated it
2 stars - Didn't like it
3 stars - Liked it
4 stars - Really liked it
5 stars - Loved it
Since I provide ratings to these sites to get recommendations, I slightly modified these meanings, so I think of my ratings as follows (using Criticker's scale now):
0 - the film offended me
25 - I don't want films like this to be recommended
50 - it was entertaining enough that I did not feel it was a complete waste of time, but I would not mind if I never heard of such a film either
75 - I would like films like that to be recommended
100 - I don't want to miss a film like that
I translate them to Criticker's 0-100 scale in a fairly straightforward fashion:
1 star -> 0
2 stars -> 25
3 stars -> 50
4 stars -> 75
5 stars -> 100
Netflix suggests the following scale to their users:
1 star - Hated it
2 stars - Didn't like it
3 stars - Liked it
4 stars - Really liked it
5 stars - Loved it
Since I provide ratings to these sites to get recommendations, I slightly modified these meanings, so I think of my ratings as follows (using Criticker's scale now):
0 - the film offended me
25 - I don't want films like this to be recommended
50 - it was entertaining enough that I did not feel it was a complete waste of time, but I would not mind if I never heard of such a film either
75 - I would like films like that to be recommended
100 - I don't want to miss a film like that
Re: What ranking scale are you guys using/recommending?
For me, 0-51 is all Tier 1.
For someone else, 0-45 may include 9 different tiers with Tier 10 being 46-100.
So defining good or bad based on raw numbers doesn't make sense. It would make more sense to define it something like
- only Tier 1 is bad
- all Tiers lower than 4 are bad
or something like that.