http://www.boxesandarrows.com/person/1114 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:17:30 GMT Comments by Zephyr Zephyr <p>Nice overview.</p> <p>I&#8217;m curious about &#8220;defensive rating&#8221; and how eBay solved it&#8230; is rating still limited to registered, signed-in members, but they can now rate anonymously? Or does rating no longer require sign-in? Thanks.</p> http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/on-a-scale-of-1-to-5#content_24944 http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/on-a-scale-of-1-to-5#content_24944 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:17:30 GMT Zephyr Zephyr <p>@David Shen: I wonder if too many 4s and 5s is really a problem&#8230; anything on this end of the scale is high-quality and worthy of users&#8217; attention&#8230; they can further decide based on other indicators. Now, if the aggregated rating is the only way to determine appropriateness, that would be a problem. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s powerful &#38; relevant enough as a stand-alone feature, but it helps. As mentioned in the article, ratings become more powerful when *combined* with written reviews (for example).</p> http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/on-a-scale-of-1-to-5#content_24947 http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/on-a-scale-of-1-to-5#content_24947 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:11:22 GMT Zephyr Zephyr