Q: dynamic playlist of unrated songs

Orville Bennett illogical1 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 6 22:12:09 UTC 2009


Gary Steinert wrote:
> On Thursday 02 July 2009 01:56:13 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>> Yes.  The statement that "rating it 1/2 suggests I like something about
>> it" is totally stupid, because if 1/2 is the lowest rating you can give
>> the track, it's pretty clear that you don't like anything about the
>> track, because you can't rate it any lower.  This isn't a valid reason
>> why the lowest rating possible must be zero.
>
> 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.
9 out 10 people disagree.



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