Can confirm this. I created a 5 Star system for my recipe app. Had the feature for a year, I didn’t use it once. I just couldn’t justify the difference between a 4 or 5 Star. Or 2 and 3 Star.
Switched to dislike, like, love buttons. Nice and discrete. Been using it for weeks now.
Unlikely I’d think, too much money riding on it, so much attention from analytics firms - unless you mean buying thumbs ups which is probably popular albeit a little cat and mouse
Five star rating system was dumb because almost every rating was 1 or 5 stars. It was right to replace with a thumbs up/thumbs down system.
That assumes that the only use for ratings is for averaging the aggregate votes across all users. Nope. Sometimes for a specific user they like to be able to see the granularity of their own ratings for their own use. And even if it is a public aggregated thing the rating service can still treat all 1-2 stars as downvotes and 4-5 stars as upvotes while it’s easier to use the simpler algorithms, but to still store the more precise data for analyzing correlations at greater detail.
Big tech covered the world in trillion-parameter AI models and couldn’t even figure out what to do with 5-star ratings differently from upvotes/downvotes? It’s ridiculous.
Yeah it’s still better than FB which doesn’t even have a thumbs down. Fortunately I’m only on FB for my job, not being able to downvote makes me crazy.
Because blocking user is the actual down vote. The way Facebook is designed any other interaction (comments or reaction emoji) actually promotes their content. I heard that putting angry reaction gives even more boost than any other one.
Five star rating system was dumb because almost every rating was 1 or 5 stars. It was right to replace with a thumbs up/thumbs down system.
They stopped showing the number of thumbs down. They did not take away the thumbs down button.
Can confirm this. I created a 5 Star system for my recipe app. Had the feature for a year, I didn’t use it once. I just couldn’t justify the difference between a 4 or 5 Star. Or 2 and 3 Star.
Switched to dislike, like, love buttons. Nice and discrete. Been using it for weeks now.
While true, what’s the difference? Do we know that they use thumbs down in anything anymore?
Of course not. We also don’t know if the thumbs up numbers aren’t completely fake.
Unlikely I’d think, too much money riding on it, so much attention from analytics firms - unless you mean buying thumbs ups which is probably popular albeit a little cat and mouse
That assumes that the only use for ratings is for averaging the aggregate votes across all users. Nope. Sometimes for a specific user they like to be able to see the granularity of their own ratings for their own use. And even if it is a public aggregated thing the rating service can still treat all 1-2 stars as downvotes and 4-5 stars as upvotes while it’s easier to use the simpler algorithms, but to still store the more precise data for analyzing correlations at greater detail.
Big tech covered the world in trillion-parameter AI models and couldn’t even figure out what to do with 5-star ratings differently from upvotes/downvotes? It’s ridiculous.
Yeah it’s still better than FB which doesn’t even have a thumbs down. Fortunately I’m only on FB for my job, not being able to downvote makes me crazy.
Because blocking user is the actual down vote. The way Facebook is designed any other interaction (comments or reaction emoji) actually promotes their content. I heard that putting angry reaction gives even more boost than any other one.
Blocking users and hiding from opposing positions is weak sauce behavior too. I am antagonistic to places and people like that.
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