Five-Star Ratings Considered Harmful

Five-star rating systems will chip away at your time, your songs, and your patience. My iTunes ratings had lost their meaning, but I’m fighting back.

Five-star ratings express excellence; One-star ratings imply crappiness. At least that’s how I treated ratings until recently. But in the case of digital music and photo libraries, that mindset will warp and twist your rating system until it becomes meaningless. (more…)