Anonymous star based rating/score for fics

[NumberSix]

It will be nice if there is some mechanism to give a fic a score rather than just like the OP/subsequent posts/follow.

 

[.We]

Star ratings don't work in real world. Everything under 4.5 ends up meaning a dislike. And most platforms reject concept of dislikes because that does not promote positivity. So we end up with a like system like QQ currently has.

 

[SnarkLord]

That sounds horrifically abuseable if it's anonymous
And if you don't leave an actual comment on the thread explicitly explaining why, the score is a worthless measure to both author and reader

 

[NumberSix]

That sounds horrifically abuseable if it's anonymous
And if you don't leave an actual comment on the thread explicitly explaining why, the score is a worthless measure to both author and reader

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It will have to come from a logged in user.
And maybe it should display who rated it, but not what the rating was.
Some safeguards could also be added, like fresh or "inexperienced" accounts not getting to vote. And blocking people who the OP blocks from adding to the score.

I view it as a faster and more exact way to review a work than writing a review, and more anonymous.
Some people who enjoy the work but don't see it as a masterpiece might find anonymous star reviews to be a better and easier way to give feedback.

 

[SnarkLord]

It will have to come from a logged in user.
And maybe it should display who rated it, but not what the rating was.
Some safeguards could also be added, like fresh or "inexperienced" accounts not getting to vote. And blocking people who the OP blocks from adding to the score.

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..that sounds like a complete and utter pain to even begin coding, let alone implementing.
There's also the question on how would you even judge what benchmark should be used for "allowed" accounts.
Kinda unfair to be account age if it's something beyond very short, and if it's very short it's pretty much useless.
Can't go for post count cause you have old accounts here who barely post
There's no single unique way you could judge "these accounts can vote" and not have it turn into a massive clusterfuck due to insulting members who for arbitrary reasons literally can't use a newly implemented function

I view it as a faster and more exact way to review a work than writing a review, and more anonymous.

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Issue is, again.
It's a vague number, it does not give anything of substance to the author.
"Oh this rated a 3 out of five..so what was the issue. Grammar? Too wordy, too short, too long, issue with x/y/z?"

Some people who enjoy the work but don't see it as a masterpiece might find anonymous star reviews to be a better and easier way to give feedback.

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It's the masterpieces you tend to have less useful feedback compared to praise.
Provided you word it politely, a vast majority of authors do really want feedback on how to improve their art.
While leaving a random ass number is vague as fuck, is unhelpful, and specifically because you left no commentary would have both the writer and readers going "so why did this get x score"
Which then loops/devlolves into readers going "this should totally be a higher/lower score, people are trolling with the rating", because personal opinion is random, and unique for each person


And that's avoiding the obvious issue that if it's anonymous, even if you put some limits on it, people will find loopholes and abuse it either for good, troll, or evil.
Which would then only generate extra work for the overlords who already only have a limited amount of free time per day they dedicate to this site