Q: dynamic playlist of unrated songs

[Tim Bocek]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Aran Cox <arancox at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?


I stand corrected - I always thought that did clear the rating.  But maybe
the fact that you need to jump through a bunch of UI hoops to accomplish it
(go to the movie page, click on a different and, to me, confusing icon) says
something in and of its self?
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