DarkEmegre
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What is a rating system supposed to mean?
Does it determine the worth of a story? Popular belief indicates such, except it’s a flawed system. The stars are supposed to tell us, the potential readers, what the technical quality of the story might be, which frankly isn’t true. When you see a story with a 4.5 rating, it doesn’t say anything these days about its quality, if you think. Many would forgive a story for not having the best delivery if the plot itself is engaging. This is fine, but it goes against the belief that the rating hints at the technical quality of the work in question.
When someone posts a negative comment or review based on biases extraneous to the story's quality, such as prejudices against the apparent belief system, gender, or sexuality of the author or characters, the commenter's biases are usually evident and future readers can discount these biased reviews. The same is not true of biased low ratings,which can be and often are posted to many similar stories with a minimum of effort compared to comments or reviews.
The rating system is unworthy. We must conclude that the favorite system is the least leverageable system on Scribble Hub. It indicates popularity and is simple. This system should be developed even further. Giving multiple choices for the reader to express their thoughts of individual chapters beyond commentary would go a long way. It wouldn’t at all hurt to use emoticons to allow users to express these emotions openly at the end of a given chapter. Look to Facebook or Discord itself for guidance in how to implement this.
To continue on what was said above, the reaction system would be able to solve many problems that have plagued Scribble Hub for a while, mainly, the Similar Series function. This feature doesn’t currently work. Not only does it showcase stories that have been on hiatus for months, it also doesn’t suggest series that are similar, just those with the same genre tags or keywords. And don’t get us wrong, genre is an important factor when considering whether two series are similar or not, but it’s not the only one. A more important thing to look at is how a story makes the reader feel. Does it make them feel sad? Happy? Excited? All of these emotions can be captured through the reaction system and be used to further enhance the Similar Series feature.
Well, to conclude, we would like to leave you with this question:
Why should we keep a system that serves no purpose at all?
Does it determine the worth of a story? Popular belief indicates such, except it’s a flawed system. The stars are supposed to tell us, the potential readers, what the technical quality of the story might be, which frankly isn’t true. When you see a story with a 4.5 rating, it doesn’t say anything these days about its quality, if you think. Many would forgive a story for not having the best delivery if the plot itself is engaging. This is fine, but it goes against the belief that the rating hints at the technical quality of the work in question.
When someone posts a negative comment or review based on biases extraneous to the story's quality, such as prejudices against the apparent belief system, gender, or sexuality of the author or characters, the commenter's biases are usually evident and future readers can discount these biased reviews. The same is not true of biased low ratings,which can be and often are posted to many similar stories with a minimum of effort compared to comments or reviews.
The rating system is unworthy. We must conclude that the favorite system is the least leverageable system on Scribble Hub. It indicates popularity and is simple. This system should be developed even further. Giving multiple choices for the reader to express their thoughts of individual chapters beyond commentary would go a long way. It wouldn’t at all hurt to use emoticons to allow users to express these emotions openly at the end of a given chapter. Look to Facebook or Discord itself for guidance in how to implement this.
To continue on what was said above, the reaction system would be able to solve many problems that have plagued Scribble Hub for a while, mainly, the Similar Series function. This feature doesn’t currently work. Not only does it showcase stories that have been on hiatus for months, it also doesn’t suggest series that are similar, just those with the same genre tags or keywords. And don’t get us wrong, genre is an important factor when considering whether two series are similar or not, but it’s not the only one. A more important thing to look at is how a story makes the reader feel. Does it make them feel sad? Happy? Excited? All of these emotions can be captured through the reaction system and be used to further enhance the Similar Series feature.
Well, to conclude, we would like to leave you with this question:
Why should we keep a system that serves no purpose at all?