Ratings: Allow more precise voting

And I know this will be problematic and hard as you guys probably had this rating system for more than 20 years but its going to be worth it for the millions of people who use IMDb. 

You described the problem, what are you gonna do with the 20 years of ratings.

I think improving the rating system is a good idea as the data from the last 20 years will remain as it is but for new data the system could be updated as adding a mathematical algorithm to collate the scores fairer would be best, plus being able to give say a 9.5 rating etc would help people in my opinion give a better score so long as the ratings reflect the no. of episodes being reviewed.

Film reviews generally are much fairer than TV series simply because virtually all of the reviewers ( should ) have seen the whole thing & can review it in it’s entirety, where some TV shows are reviewed way too early to be a fair rating.

@The_Torrent​ 

I can't see whether you've voted for the thread where your post has been merged. 

I'm fairly sure that merging your post here does _not_ automatically cast your vote for it. 

If the up-arrow isn't green, then you can vote.

@bderoes​ Thanks. Yh, i was merged and hadn't voted.

add decimal system for ratings. just to be more accurate and fair.

add rating system for separate seasons of a tv show.

for example, if i love the first season of a show, i would rate it 9/10 and if i do not like second season of that show, i should be able to rate it as 5/10.

The current IMDb ratings should have smaller ratings increments.  Rather than the 1 point increment, it should be .25 of a point (or something like that).  In my opinion, that gives the IMDb user a way to give a more accurate rating for a t.v. program, film, etc.  

I would like to suggest this change.

Could we get better review system please?

- Floating point

- Categories (8.5-Blue, 9.9-Green) 

That way I can come back to IMDB to look at a map of my favorite movies.

Thanks!

Relatively good, though definitely not decimal.

Very probably IMDB have too simple weight system by now which does not distinguish well enough scores.

Normally, people who use scores from 2 to 5 should be somewhere around 3x more weighted than ones who does not use them at all. And people who use only 9 and 10 and 1 much less than both above.

Both because it requires time and accuracy to make your opinion useful, and because it's good bot and arrogance protection.

In that case ratings like 5.5 and 9.5 may be valuable. But very probably you feel need of them not because of this, but because you adjust score distribution to incorrect scale - like you used to mark bad films somewhere near 5, while normally you have 1 and 2 rates for them.

Normally, IMDB must do the scaling and normally you safely use scores form 1 to 5. However, who knows if IMDB implements this properly.

As a sidenote, I'd vote for "7+" "10+" "1-" scores - they do not make ugly decimals, and they allow this extra bit of precision.

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axel_de_soomer
Thursday, May 11th, 2017
Ratings: Allow more precise voting
​if it is possible to give ratings like 9.4 , 4.5 , 8.6, ...​
https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/ratings-allow-more-precise-voting/5f4a79b28815453dba866c16

kyle_i5gvs30ie8k3m
Sunday, December 1st, 2019
Could we please get a decimal point added to the rating system?
https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/could-we-please-get-a-decimal-point-added-to-the-rating-system/5f4a7a3b8815453dba9ebbf0

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The idea is simple, we should be able to rate a title 8,5 points. I think it's necessary. When you think a movie deserves 84 points, which point would you give? Sadly 8 points. Or you may think the movie deserves 86 points, so would you really want to give a 9 points to that movie? I think not. If you had 8,5 points, wouldn't you use it? I think there is no reason to not to add 0,5 gaps in points. It wouldn't be complicated at all, It would be just great.

So do they ever respond to these?

@anthonykendrick_50069​ Idea threads are monitored and we have implemented a large number of them over the years, however, they are evaluated as part of our regular planning process for IMDb vs. being acted upon immediately (we have a bug reporting process for the latter). 

Ideas are also subject to extra review when the feature to which the idea relates is being updated, something which has not been applicable to the voting system for a while. Also not all ideas are suitable for direct implementation, but they are often used as inputs to related changes.

Hope this helps. 

@Col_Needham​ Thank you for the info. Just wasn't sure anyone was even reading these. 

Why don't you guys add .5 to your rating system..

Like 7.5,8.5

It will be very helpful to us if you do so..

Please add it..

Does anyone know why IMDb doesn't allow film ratings in 0.5s? It's only in multiples of 1, which is difficult because there's such a massive difference between an 8.5 and a 9, for example, or a 7 and a 7.5. I'd love if they changed this, it'd make rating so much easier

Good morning fellow movie lovers (and in case I don’t see you Good Afternoon, Good Evening and Good Night!),

After being a IMDB user for about 7 years now I reached out via email to customer service regarding the current rating system in place. They pointed me to the IMDB community. So I signed up and now take my idea to the people!

I believe that the traditional 1-10 rating system is too limiting for the average movie lover. This may work for a casual fan or someone who is looking to give 1s or 10s to a movie the love or hate. But why should I have to look at the Medacritic score of 0-100, then simply give the movie a 7 since I liked it but didn’t love it. Now 1-10 is better than a 5 star rating or some silly thumbs up or down vote. But as a fan service, we need more options to more accurately rate our movies.

There are several ideas/concepts that we could implement. However, I think the easiest would be to add decimals points rounded to the tenth (i.e. 7.6 or 8.1, etc). This way the IMDB user can be more comparable to the Medacritic with roughly 100 options for their ratings. And since the overall fan vote is already rounded to the tenth ascetically it wouldn’t be anything that looks too far from what is already displayed. 

I have many a time looked at my ratings and have had two movies ranked at an 8 that clearly are different rankings but not enough to put one up to 9 or one down to 7. I’m sorry but Top Gun and Django Unchained are both 8s but one is clearly better (I’ll let you decide). 

The functionally and technical aspects I’ll leave up to the professionals. However, I am sure that that adding more options to the rating systems would result in a better experience for the super fans and more accurately represent the movies actual rating which in turn creates a higher quality experience. 

Keep up the good work!