Question about star ratings.
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Since I'm here, when I scroll through the torrents I'll see some torrents have stars under them. When I click on the torrent, most often I'll see
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none yet (needs at least 3 votes and has got only 1)I've always wondered, the star on the torrent list page seems to show the rating for even videos with just one or two votes or am I misunderstanding what those stars represent?
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@Richiroma said in Question about star ratings.:
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none yet (needs at least 3 votes and has got only 1)Star ratings are for trolls attacking torrent w/ 1 star vote ... [known long issue]
SEE :
https://community.gaytorrent.ru/topic/50540/one-star-spammer?
https://community.gaytorrent.ru/topic/60024/1-star-rating-troll? -
@Richiroma I think the star rating on the torrent list is the average of the votes to date, even if there aren't three of them. It's odd that the search page rating is done differently from what's on an individual torrent page, but it's likely a "feature" of the software that would be painful to change--and unnecessary.
I say "unnecessary" because I don't think the ratings are used consistently by members: Some people give five stars as a way of saying "thank you," and there's at least one troll who puts one star on torrents that he doesn't like...which seems disrespectful to the uploader. (When I see one of those, I do a five star rating so it averages to three.)
Rather than using rating stars to assess a torrent, we can look at how many people said "thank you" on the torrent page and/or how many bonus points were awarded. That said, we all have different tastes. For example, I'm not at all interested in seeing two completely shaven twinks fucking, but there's still an audience for that and it could get lots of applause from people who like that content.
Sorry for the long essay. Maybe I had too much coffee this morning...
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the whole star system is pointless and stupid because it does not explicitly indicates if what is being rated is the content or the distribution itself.
Some people use the stars to rate the content, how well it fits their expectations, or how they rate the production value (framing, lighting, image quality etc), some people use it to indicate that the content is faithful to what is advertised in the torrent page.
Some people will download a torrent, not like it, and still give 5 stars because it has good previews, good description, thumbnails included, etc.
There will be torrents where the uploader has clearly put a lot of effort, and it will be rated poorly because someone didn't like the actor, or because it lacked cum scenes, or they look too bored, etc...
Long story short, it was a lazy implementation that to this day nobody really cared enough to bother fixing its problems and making it useful.
tl;dr: don't waste your time looking at ratings.
