About how we consider each other

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Already fed up with standard rating systems? All these ± , five stars and others ? They are used at every corner and carry many problems and ambiguities, despite their simplicity. The most important and unifying problem is the inability to assess your emotions, and this is sometimes very important. After all, the topic can be fun, but at the same time, plus you will put it for it - how to be, to be guided by the policy of the resource? on your emotions? on the moon phase? There is no unequivocal answer, and unequivocal decision, too - from that there are ambiguities.

I will talk about a non-trivial system that I implemented on my project and added it, not without the help of the article “ Choosing a Content Rating Method ”.
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About what already is

Once we need to sort the topic by emotion, then these emotions first need to be highlighted. Emotions or something else. Since my project is a creative focus, it was proposed to use the categories of “originality”, “artistry”, “technique” and evaluate each according to the standard scale.

I agree, this is a bit inconvenient and confused, there was always the question of what to put - 82 or 87, for example. Therefore, to facilitate selection and visual presentation, a slider was made, initially set on the number 50 in all three categories. And psychologically, the illusion always works that to the left of the slider, where there is less than 50, there is a minus, more correctly, a plus (I specifically asked the users, even once there was a small scandal about this, described by me in the previous article) .

Problems also arose with the fact that not all users immediately understood the meaning of each category of assessment. There were arguments and arguments on what is what, after which everything more or less returned to normal. Again, maybe because the project of a creative orientation and not all ordinary understandings act on it in the usual way.

About what I want to do

Creativity is creative, and on the resource with a general theme of the assessment category there must be others. For example: "funny, sad," "useful, useless," "exciting / shocking, boring." Already on this trio you can get rid of posts and get an interesting picture. Now a funny picture can be rated as + 1 / -1 / + 1, and a big topic about CSS as -1 / + 1 / -1 (although the latter score already depends more on the style of the story, as well as the first one). Generally limited to the notorious + 1 / -1 is not worth it. Implementing a slider of 50 or even 100 points in each direction, not showing the numbers at which the slider stops, and sorting into categories will be much easier and more convenient.

What to do next

And then you should try to combine all three indicators into some one (I say three, but I mean any other integer!).

Imagine a sphere! It has three coordinates, even if we have a scatter of estimates from -100 to +100. Now we take a set of smiles and give each coordinate its own coordinate, for example: “:)” - + 100 / + 50 / + 50; “;)” - + 75 / + 85 / + 20; "O_O" - 0/0 / + 100, and so on. Now, if in each coordinate we place a point with a weight of one, then according to the law of the center of mass, the center of weight of smiles should be located in the center of the sphere in order to balance all possible voices and probabilities.

But I will not say how to derive a general formula!

For the simple reason — I don't know that yet.