Rate it a 1 or a 5 don’t ask me to qualify a 3.5
I use Last.FM it is an awesome. There are many reasons I think that it is great, but I want to make this entry short. One of the great things is that it allows me to say I love a track or ban that track from my library.
That’s what got me thinking. I very often will press love or ban a track. It is simple and connected to how I feel about the track. I either love or hate it, all the rest of the stuff is in the middle and I can just skip it if I don’t really love it. But I really want more stuff I love and less stuff that I would ban.
Why doesn’t NetFlix do this? or everyother site that uses ratings. I mean there are really only two meaningful vales on a 1-5 scale. 1 and 5. The rest is just sort of in the middle and can be scanned efficiently because 50% of the time you may like it and 50% of the time you won’t.
So my new position on ratings is: Ask me do I love or hate and the rest give me a simple way to scan through it.