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“Like or Like-Not, There Is No ‘Meh’.”

A little quirk I picked up sometime in the past year: I don’t use the third star.

On both Netflix and Amazon—an any other review site I might conceivably use—I will only click one, two, four, or five stars.

The third star is too wishy-washy. Lazy people live in that star, unwilling or unable to make a choice, to stand by an opinion.

Living in a four-star world one must make up their mind. Did I hate this or just not like it? Did I really love this, or just like it. If the work is conflicted, does its virtues outweigh its flaws? Hearts and feathers, on the scale!

I really recommend this rating system for another reason: recommendation engines seem to do a much better job when you are really telling them what you like and don’t like.