Q: dynamic playlist of unrated songs

[Aran Cox]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Tim Bocek<tim.bocek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

It looks like in Netflix you can rate something zero stars.  You have
to go to the movie page itself and there is an icon (a circle with a
line through it) that does not clear the rating (which you can also
do) but in fact gives it zero stars.  Who knew?