Q: dynamic playlist of unrated songs

[Tim Bocek]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Gary Steinert <gary.steinert at gmail.com>wrote:

>  I was talking from a users point of view, in that setting the lowest
> possible
> rating to 1/2 would be about as intuitive as saying "You can rate a track
> between 10 and 20". To most people, any scale of rating starts at 0, not
> 1/2
> or 10 or any other number.
>

I didn't know most people have started intuitively counting from zero!
Maybe there's hope for IT departments yet! :P

Open up your newspaper to the movie reviews.  Do you see *anything* rated
zero stars?  Or does even the biggest pile of cinematic crap get at least a
half?  Open up iTunes or Winamp - do you see the ability to rate zero stars,
or is the least you can give that isn't counted as "unrated" one star?  Log
onto Netflix and try to rate something zero stars.  I think there is a good
argument that having ratings start at 1/2 or 1 star instead of zero is much
more intuitive from the point of view of most users since that is what they
are used to.


>
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> and
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> between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will
> only
> make it mushy. -- Mark Twain
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