The medium metacritic2/28/2023 Nonetheless, Metacritic processes ratings by the undocumented “stature” of critics to produce a weighted “Metascore”. Metacritic’s stated goal is to “help consumers make an informed decision about how to spend their time and money”, a goal that is not served by skewing in either direction, nor by rating on a curve. I expect a small effect size from them, even in contexts like BGG’s user interface, where the guidelines are readily available. Though interesting, guidelines don’t seem to influence ratings. Not all sites where ratings skew high have official guidelines. No such philosophy is apparent in the way people actually rate games or movies. The latter possibility, in turn, splits two ways: Either the author is irrationally pessimistic, or they have espoused some philosophy that distinguishes between two different ranges of quality, such as entertainment distinct from a “true” art that brings a “true” joy. Either the author expects ratings to skew high, as in fact they do, or the author believes that normal experiences are not good, which is dubious. Such guidelines, viewed in isolation, suggest two things. You instead indicate that it is significantly worse than good and that you did not enjoy it. If you rate a game at 5 according to these guidelines, you do not thereby indicate that it is typical or normal among the games you play, or have ever played. The words “adequate”, “satisfactory” and “average” are not used. “Good” appears past the midpoint of the scale, and “enjoy” even further along, at 8/10. In modern English, it suggests reluctance, and on the BGG scale, “OK” is explicitly worse than good. The next keyword, “OK”, probably originated as a humorously bad abbreviation of “all correct”, originally denoting something that is good enough in every meaningful way, but “OK” has pejorated. The word “mediocre” denotes “average”, but it has a negative connotation. Notice the two adjectives around the midpoint of the BGG scale. IMDb has no official guidelines, but IMDb users describing their own personal interpretations of the scale tend to do it in similar terms. Outstanding - will always enjoy playing.Very good - enjoy playing and would suggest it.When a user hovers over a potential rating for a board game on BGG, they see the following guidelines for interpretation of the site’s 10-point scale: Off the top of my head and in no particular order, I think ratings skew high for the following reasons. The exhaustion of quality with experience.
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