Rating and Comment Bias and Two-Star-Bandit
Sept 26, 2023 10:29:58 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Sept 26, 2023 10:29:58 GMT -5
Rating and Comment Bias
By Radrook
AKA Two-Star-Bandit
By Radrook
AKA Two-Star-Bandit
Yes, I am once more talking about ratings that are made available at writing websites in order to convey reader opinion. What exactly is their value? Well, the answer would depend on exactly how accurately a rating reflects a story's merit.
For example, a deserved rating is very valuable whether it be a low, modest or a high, since it is provides very important information, which can prove very helpful to writer's improvement.
However, if the rating is unjustly low, too modest, or too high, then it does quite the opposite. For example, an extremely low rating in response to a composition deserving the rating of Awesome or of Great, will tend to frustrate the writer who knows that the person doing the rating either doesn't really know what he is talking about, or else is providing a low rating in order to do MAGA or else because the person is deriving some sort of perverse pleasure from inflicting psychological discomfort.
Conversely, a high rating of Great or Awesome in response to veritable drivel, will lead the driveller to continue driveling and in that way assure his or her failure as a published writers when no one wants to publish the defective writing and he is being constantly showered wit rejection slips.
Reader Comments
Now, make no mistake! Reader comments, expressing opinions, are exact the same. Ever hear of the phrase damning someone's performance via faint praise? Or the term double entendre?
Faint Praise
Example of damning via the flagrant use of faint praise:
A writer writes his heart out, and along comes this bozo who is notorious for constantly splurging sycophantic praises on inferior writing of some inept pet writer for any drivel that might be written, and who is now suddenly and inexplicably rendered almost mute after reading your composition, with a one-word quip, such as "Horrible" when referring to yours.
Double Entendres
Which can be understood as a double entendre, a phrase, comment, or word, that can have double meaning. You see, the cryptic response of "Horrible!"
can be understood two ways:
can be understood two ways:
1. Referring to the quality of the writing.
2. Referring to the detail's of the story which invoked horror.
Take your choice since its meaning can go either way just as the administrator intended.
But that wasn't all. To add insult to injury, and as usual, this person was constantly and predictably lavishing the Awesome rating, which was almost always being cunningly kept just beyond my reach, on seriously-flawed compositions.
Malicious dishonesty? You bet!
Blatant favoritism? Definitely!
So in view of such a provocative unfair policy, I opted to start providing helpful two-star ratings that were deserved, instead of going along with the demanded role of lavishing undeserved praises.
Now when that change was immediately noticed, since I was being watched with the attentiveness of a hawk eagerly honing in on its prey, the threat of banning and the accusation of being a Two-Star Bandit was deployed. Thus the Two-Star Bandit appellation.