No because 'above average' does not translate to 'i like this', a 3/5 on an autistic relative scale can mean you gave a positive score to an album you have an overall negative feeling towards The only way to STANDARDIZE what scores mean is to base them on numbers alone, not arbitrary feelings.īringing up mutual intelligibility was and still is irrelevant.

He could just be hiding releases that he thinks you must think are total dogshit, and showing you everything else. He could think 3 is average and you should see releases by average artists. Sharifi could've programmed this to simply cull out releases that you think are total shit. Your ENTIRE argument hedges on the fact (which I'm not even sure is true) that upcoming releases pop up for albums you rate 3 stars. It tells you that generally, people think the album is better than most other albums. Relative quality is still quality you fucking idiot. >use a quality-based system to tell us about quality. You should want to hear more 'above average' work. Why does the functionality of the 'upcoming releases' module mean a universal standard for your feelings has been assigned to certain ratings? I already said that the functionality of that module can be explained by 3/5 meaning 'above average.' It makes sense to be notified of releases by artists who have made work you ranked above most other work you've heard.

I told you this reasoning makes no fucking sense. >the site is not designed to be used that way since it factors 3/5s into your recs and tells you about upcoming releases Calling a post 'unintelligible' is correct usage. I'm showing that I didn't misuse the word. It tells us the album is above average in quality. >which tells us nothing about the quality

So you're saying everyone's system has to say that '3' means 'like?' What if you want to grade 3 as 'hate?' What if your descriptor for 3 actually says Superman 64? Who's to say you can't do that? >an average of 3 would mean 'on average people liked this more than they disliked it' with my system attaching tons other things you like or dislike to your ratings can have pretty much no meaning to people other than yourself. They have no meaning other than to the person who ranked them. You are making someone of the most broken arguments I've ever seen.Įven if the video game example YOU CAME UP WITH works that way, pornstars based on some guy's preference are not communicable.

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