Favorite Rating Systems

Thumbs up or thumbs down is good enough for me.

I like the simplicity of letterboxd 5 stars. The possibility of ratings are smaller so it easily tells me how most people (that have common sense) view a film.

I prefer it when it’s just “reccomend, do not reccomend, must watch, mixed opinion.” I don’t value any ordinal ranking that’s just an avg of multiple people, be it select critics or popular vote

I prefer defined ratings e.g. "great, good, meh, bad, awful". The more specific the options, the more "accurate" the overall rating because of the discrepancy between what people view each rating as. Different people will score 3/5 as meaning "bad" "meh" "good enough" or "really good but not great (4/5) or outstanding (5/5)". Scoring out of 10 allows for more nuance, but puts more pressure on people so 5 is more common - it's much easier to say if you think something was a 4 v 5, or good v great, than put a number out of 10 on it.

IIRC, there was a study that states the average viewer doesn't really understand how to correctly utilize any ranking system beyond "like/dislike." Most people just say [minimum] or [maximum], which defeats the entire purpose of an x/y system. That said, I wish Netflix would go back to a 5-star system and that IMDB had a granular x/10 system.

Do you like a 5 star rating or 10 star rating in disguise as a 5 star?

I like rotten tomatoes. Critic score tells me how well made it is. Audience score tells me how entertaining it is.

1-6.

"Yeah" "Meh" "Nah"

i think 4 stars. bad, mediocre, good, must watch.

I'm with you on the 5 star thing - feels too limiting when you've got something that's like a 6.5/10 but doesn't quite deserve 4 stars. The 1-10 scale just gives you more room to work with those middle-ground movies that aren't terrible but aren't great either.

1-10 and 1-100 are the same if you include fractions on the 1-10, which most lists do. For example a 7.2 is the same as 72/100, they’re the same.

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