On a previous ratings-based site I was working on, we ran into a big problem: distinguishing not caring from not liking.
Because to "like" something, or give it 4 or 5 stars, means you both like it, and it matters to you.
But if you're getting notifications in your newsfeed about a particular band, for example, giving it 1 star could either mean you hate the band's music, or it could mean that you've just never heard of the band and don't want to hear about it.
Depending on the site, you may want to do drastically different things given the two cases, but I've never seen any site that successfully distinguished between the two things in an intuitive way. (And giving 3/5 stars is not really the answer either.)
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On a previous ratings-based site I was working on, we ran into a big problem: distinguishing not caring from not liking.
Because to "like" something, or give it 4 or 5 stars, means you both like it, and it matters to you.
But if you're getting notifications in your newsfeed about a particular band, for example, giving it 1 star could either mean you hate the band's music, or it could mean that you've just never heard of the band and don't want to hear about it.
Depending on the site, you may want to do drastically different things given the two cases, but I've never seen any site that successfully distinguished between the two things in an intuitive way. (And giving 3/5 stars is not really the answer either.)