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Old Feb 23, 2013, 12:27 PM
Xenofan 29A Xenofan 29A is offline
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VGMdb has a 10 point system. Half stars are functionally equivalent in all but graphical representation to points. I don't think about it differently here than at IMDb.

In my mind:
10 (5) - Best of the best
9 (4.5) - Excellent
8 (4) - Great
7 (3.5) - Good
6 (3) - Decent
5 (2.5) - Okay
4 (2) - Mediocre
3 (1.5) - Poor
2 (1) - Terrible
1 (0.5) - Absolutely horrible

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Originally Posted by Namorbia
Apparently 5-star rating systems are not good, since most people rate really high or really low. YouTube used to have a 5-star rating system and "the number of 5-star ratings greatly outnumbered all others, with 1-star a distant second." People also use half-stars a lot less than whole stars. On some site called MovieLens with millions of ratings "only 20% of all ratings are half-stars."
Any ratings system you can imagine will be abused this way. Look at any movie on IMDb, and you'll see the same kind of distribution.

Last edited by Xenofan 29A; Feb 23, 2013 at 12:31 PM.
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