high vs low review scores

[John_Owl]

pretty much the title. I grew up thinking higher reviews are better, but I've seen numerous authors on here deliberately asking for 1-star reviews. I was just curious as to the reason. It seems like higher reviews would be better.

 

[RepresentingPride]

Numerous? Isn't that just @K5Rakitan who ask for 1 star?

Also, for me, it's seem the number of views are more important than reviews here, since it's the number of views who change your ranking in the list.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

what sleds said

 

[Ilikewaterkusa]

pretty much the title. I grew up thinking higher reviews are better, but I've seen numerous authors on here deliberately asking for 1-star reviews. I was just curious as to the reason. It seems like higher reviews would be better.

too much people give 5 stars so having people give 1 stars makes things look more believable and its more interesting reading a piece of shit

 

[John_Owl]

Numerous? Isn't that just @K5Rakitan who ask for 1 star?

Also, for me, it's seem the number of views are more important than reviews here, since it's the number of views who change your ranking in the list.

I don't normally keep track of these things. It's something I've seen repeatedly, but I didn't have a specific account associated with it in my mind.

 

[BlackKnightX]

I've only seen one author asking for a one star review. I think she just wants to show that she doesn't care about the rating, so she decides to go the opposite route. Kinda like reverse psychology, but not quite.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

I don't normally keep track of these things. It's something I've seen repeatedly, but I didn't have a specific account associated with it in my mind.

We repeatedly refer to one person. Perhasps you are confused since not everyone tag her, or use her full name.

 

[Deleted member 1244]

numerous authors

Numerous?

 

[LilRora]

Frankly, even though the origin of the question might be a bit of a joke, it's actually pretty logical. I think it's not that low review scores are better in any way, but numerous five-star reviews don't say much about a story. They're unreliable, so to speak.

Some people casually give five stars to stories they just liked, while another person will give five stars only to an absolute masterpiece. There is a similar discrepancy at four stars and any other rating, but it's not nearly that glaring, and so it makes reviews around 3-4.5 stars much more reliable when you want a serious answer how good the story actually is.

One-star reviews though have the same exact problem as five stars.

 

[Succubiome]

Yeah, I've also only seen @K5Rakitan ask for it-- but to be fair, she does ask for it a lot. If you don't remember names, I can see how you could easily be just like "huh, why is this a thing with authors?"

 

[Representing_Tromba]

We repeatedly refer to one person. Perhasps you are confused since not everyone tag her, or use her full name.

Probably

 

[jrell]

It would be great if we had a Steam-like rating system that allows users to give a Like or Dislike, which would then be converted into a fair percentage ranging from 1 to 100 among all voters. Most people give either a rating of 1 or 5 anyway.
As a cherry on top, it will allow website developers to build a personal recommendation system based on your history of likes/dislikes.

 

[Deleted member 1244]

Perhaps we can have an infinite review inception system.

Every rating and review will itself get a review, and can get a rating and a review, and then the review of the review will also get a review.. and it goes on indefinitely.

 

[ArchlordZero]

I think it is for publicity/marketing.
Imagine a reader casually browsing in a sea of 5-star stories, then he/she stumbles upon a 1-star story. It makes everyone curious why there's a low-rated novel out of nowhere, so they check it out.

 

[KuruKinaar]

I would say: one star rating sticks out to me. I see it and wonder why, and then I read it myself to see if it's worthy of a one star rating. I think that's why, because a negative review sticks out more than positive reviews. Kinda smart tactic not gonna lie.

 

[John_Owl]

so what I'm getting is that it seems to be mostly a matter of honesty. people give a 5 star review as a "I like it" sort of rating, when a 2-4 might've been more appropriate. so by asking for specific low votes to lower your overall score, it makes the overall score seem more accurate. additionally, a lower score stands out in a sea of flawless 5 stars.

It would be great if we had a Steam-like rating system that allows users to give a Like or Dislike, which would then be converted into a fair percentage ranging from 1 to 100 among all voters. Most people give either a rating of 1 or 5 anyway.
As a cherry on top, it will allow website developers to build a personal recommendation system based on your history of likes/dislikes.

i could see that being better. kind of if you have 4 vote, 3 likes and 1 dislike, your story is at a 75%. that would be far more useful than a false-5 rating system.

 

[IshiharaNiaoka]

I've realised some hidden gem novels were actually low rated. Honestly in my opinion they were so good but people dropped it before they could enjoy. So if a friend recommends me a low rated novel I'll read and see if it actually deserves that rating. Because I'm currently reading some mtl translation novel. The story is really good just no translation making it hard to read and the author wrote in second person which was annoying as hell, but because of the good plot I chose to ignore it. I also think the tags mislead people to think the story was some dark smut ? but after 80 chaps of reading there's no snu snu so I was a bit disappointed

 

[TheEldritchGod]

I cursed them to ask for 1 star reviews in hopes of ruining everyone else's book to make mine seem better in comparison

 

[Evil-Empire]

its more interesting reading a piece of shit

Than reading something good? You're in luck then. Sturgeon's Law states that 90% of everything is shit. And that's back when books had to pass through an editor and proofreader long before even being considered for publishing. Now your uncle's dog can write a pile of crap and publish it somewhere on the web, so it's probably closer to 99.9%.

About 5 star reviews, aren't most of those the result of one person reading a story and liking it enough to rate it 5 stars? Most new stories seem to have a 5 star review from just one person.

 

[Sweetmeat]

If you can't get first sorted by rating descending, why not get first stored ascending?