Hidden stars rating
Something that has always bothered me is that prediction rating often make my own rating biased, specially when it's a movie I saw a long time ago. It would be nice to have the ratings hidden by default and have a button or a mouse over even to reveal the predicted score.
Anonymous
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Very true, we’ve found in our research that this is the case. It would be nice to have a “rating mode” where you can turn the predicted stars off.
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Andrew
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What's the status of this? I've thought about this myself. I don't mind seeing the predicted rating before I watch a movie, but afterwards when I'm ready to rate, the predicted rating, if I'm torn between 4 and 4.5 stars (for example), will often make the decision for me.
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randomoneh
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What's the status of this?
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Oscar Campbell
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I've thought about this so many times on imdb, and now when finding MovieLens.
Even though I rate very thoughtfully – it would be nice to take any bias out of the picture when in "rating mode". -
gabriel
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I think we all probably fall for this anchoring effect. It'd be good to have a mode where ratings are hidden (though sorting is still active)
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firelight
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Same here. I try to look away when rating now, or figure out my rating before hand :)
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Anonymous
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Indeed, please implement this. It is very hard to rate a movie in an unbiased way when the system throws in your face how it expects you to rate it.
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Claudio
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Absolutely true. If I see the first prediction, after my vote it will inevitably be affected.
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Klaus
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How about an additional button next to the 'view' option and the filters?
In addition to hiding ratings, this could also include the option of displaying average ratings instead of a prediction. In certain cases, I am more interested in the average rating (in the highest rated list, for example) and it is tiresome to look at each movie individually.