1098: Star Ratings - Revision history

Amateurautist: /* Explanation */

2026-03-23T17:38:05Z

‎Explanation

98.146.183.226: /* Explanation */ Why were there parentheses?

2025-10-13T21:22:50Z

‎Explanation: Why were there parentheses?

172.68.205.92: /* Explanation */ Less sea of blue. (And the "as a prank" doesn't relate to that comic, anyway...)

2024-12-31T19:46:44Z

‎Explanation: Less sea of blue. (And the "as a prank" doesn't relate to that comic, anyway...)

HyperBirbN3rd: Linked to another comic (958: Hotels)

2024-12-31T16:38:16Z

Linked to another comic (958: Hotels)

172.69.195.231: /* Explanation */ Reword to avoid argument about whether it grammatically agrees best between "reviews ... ... push" or "... factor ... pushes"

2024-04-04T23:26:15Z

‎Explanation: Reword to avoid argument about whether it grammatically agrees best between "reviews ... ... push" or "... factor ... pushes"

Psychoticpotato: There were a lot of typos in this explanation. I straightened them out as best I could.

2024-04-04T21:39:02Z

There were a lot of typos in this explanation. I straightened them out as best I could.

Apollo11 at 14:56, 3 April 2024

2024-04-03T14:56:01Z

Apollo11: I moved the paragraph below into the 5 stars box

2024-03-25T21:49:28Z

I moved the paragraph below into the 5 stars box

Apollo11: Done i think

2024-03-25T21:47:49Z

Done i think

Apollo11: hope this works

2024-03-25T21:41:52Z

hope this works

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 | 4.5 Stars || Excellent || When a business has many customers, it's impossible to please all of them, or they did please them all and some are [[958: Hotels|posting bad reviews]] as a cruel prank. However, 4.5 stars means almost everyone finds the business pleasant.
 |-
-| 4 Stars || OK || If it has 4 stars this means that a significant portion of the customers are having a bad experience at the store
+| 4 Stars || OK || If it has 4 stars, this means that a significant portion of the customers are having a bad experience at the store.
 |-
-| 3.5 Stars - 0 Stars || Crap || 3.5 stars and below means a large percentage of people have a bad experience at the shop.
+| 3.5 Stars - 0 Stars || Crap || 3.5 stars and below means a large percentage of people have had a bad experience with the product.
 |}

@@ Line 16: / Line 16: @@
 | 5 Stars || [Has Only One Review] || No product is so perfect that every user will give it five stars - as soon as one person gives it less than five, the overall review score will drop. Fake reviews are also factors that often push an aggregate score higher, although this is not addressed in the comic. For this reason, the only explanation for a five-star rating is that only a few users have voted, maybe only one.
 |-
-| 4.5 Stars || Excellent || When a business has many customers it's impossible to please all of them or they did please them all and some are ([[958: Hotels|posting bad reviews]] as a cruel prank). However, 4.5 stars means almost everyone finds the business pleasant.
+| 4.5 Stars || Excellent || When a business has many customers, it's impossible to please all of them, or they did please them all and some are [[958: Hotels|posting bad reviews]] as a cruel prank. However, 4.5 stars means almost everyone finds the business pleasant.
 |-
 | 4 Stars || OK || If it has 4 stars this means that a significant portion of the customers are having a bad experience at the store

@@ Line 16: / Line 16: @@
 | 5 Stars || [Has Only One Review] || No product is so perfect that every user will give it five stars - as soon as one person gives it less than five, the overall review score will drop. Fake reviews are also factors that often push an aggregate score higher, although this is not addressed in the comic. For this reason, the only explanation for a five-star rating is that only a few users have voted, maybe only one.
 |-
-| 4.5 Stars || Excellent || When a business has many customers it's impossible to please all of them ([[958: Hotels|or they did please them all and some are posting bad reviews as a cruel prank]]). However, 4.5 stars means almost everyone finds the business pleasant.
+| 4.5 Stars || Excellent || When a business has many customers it's impossible to please all of them or they did please them all and some are ([[958: Hotels|posting bad reviews]] as a cruel prank). However, 4.5 stars means almost everyone finds the business pleasant.
 |-
 | 4 Stars || OK || If it has 4 stars this means that a significant portion of the customers are having a bad experience at the store

@@ Line 16: / Line 16: @@
 | 5 Stars || [Has Only One Review] || No product is so perfect that every user will give it five stars - as soon as one person gives it less than five, the overall review score will drop. Fake reviews are also factors that often push an aggregate score higher, although this is not addressed in the comic. For this reason, the only explanation for a five-star rating is that only a few users have voted, maybe only one.
 |-
-| 4.5 Stars || Excellent || When a business has many customers it's impossible to please all of them (or they did please them all and some are posting bad reviews as a cruel prank). However, 4.5 stars means almost everyone finds the business pleasant.
+| 4.5 Stars || Excellent || When a business has many customers it's impossible to please all of them ([[958: Hotels|or they did please them all and some are posting bad reviews as a cruel prank]]). However, 4.5 stars means almost everyone finds the business pleasant.
 |-
 | 4 Stars || OK || If it has 4 stars this means that a significant portion of the customers are having a bad experience at the store

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 ! Star Rating!! Randall's Conclusion || Explanation
 |-
-| 5 Stars || [Has Only One Review] || No product is so perfect that every user will give it five stars - as soon as one person gives it less than five, the overall review score will drop. Fake reviews are also a factor that often pushes an aggregate score higher, although this is not addressed in the comic. For this reason, the only explanation for a five-star rating is that only a few users have voted, maybe only one.
+| 5 Stars || [Has Only One Review] || No product is so perfect that every user will give it five stars - as soon as one person gives it less than five, the overall review score will drop. Fake reviews are also factors that often push an aggregate score higher, although this is not addressed in the comic. For this reason, the only explanation for a five-star rating is that only a few users have voted, maybe only one.
 |-
 | 4.5 Stars || Excellent || When a business has many customers it's impossible to please all of them (or they did please them all and some are posting bad reviews as a cruel prank). However, 4.5 stars means almost everyone finds the business pleasant.

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic deals with the idea that users when viewing online star ratings are usually heavily biased towards the best possible rating (five stars). As there are nine possible scores in the rating system in the comic (1 star, 1.5 stars, 2 stars...4.5 stars, and finally 5 stars), a rating of 3 out of 5 stars is supposed to represent "average" or "mediocre". Thus, anything above 3-and-a-half stars is supposed to be "good" and anything below 3-and-a-half stars is "bad". However, most people consider a four star rating to be "OK", and everything below as "crap".
+This comic deals with the idea that users when viewing online star ratings are usually heavily biased towards the best possible rating (five stars). As there are nine possible scores in the rating system in the comic (1 star, 1.5 stars, 2 stars...4.5 stars, and finally 5 stars), a rating of 3 out of 5 stars is supposed to represent "average" or "mediocre". Thus, anything above 3-and-a-half stars is supposed to be "good" and anything below 3-and-a-half stars is "bad". However, most people consider a four-star rating to be "OK", and everything below as "crap".
 {| class="wikitable"
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 ! Star Rating!! Randall's Conclusion || Explanation
 |-
-| 5 Stars || [Has Only One Review] || No product is so perfect that every user will give it five stars - as soon as one person gives it less than five, the overall review score would drop. Fake reviews are also a factor that often push an aggregate score higher, although this is not addressed in the comic. For this reason,  So the only explanation for a five star rating is that only a few users have voted, maybe only one.
+| 5 Stars || [Has Only One Review] || No product is so perfect that every user will give it five stars - as soon as one person gives it less than five, the overall review score will drop. Fake reviews are also a factor that often pushes an aggregate score higher, although this is not addressed in the comic. For this reason, the only explanation for a five-star rating is that only a few users have voted, maybe only one.
 |-
-| 4.5 Stars || Excellent || When a business has many costumers its impossible to please all of them (or they did please them all and some are posting bad reviews as a cruel prank). However 4.5 stars means almost everyone finds the business pleasent.
+| 4.5 Stars || Excellent || When a business has many customers it's impossible to please all of them (or they did please them all and some are posting bad reviews as a cruel prank). However, 4.5 stars means almost everyone finds the business pleasant.
 |-
-| 4 Stars || OK || If it has 4 stars this means that a signifacant portion of the costumers are having a bad experience at the store
+| 4 Stars || OK || If it has 4 stars this means that a significant portion of the customers are having a bad experience at the store
 |-
-| 3.5 Stars - 0 Stars || Crap || 3.5 stars and below means a large percent of people have a bad experience at the shop.
+| 3.5 Stars - 0 Stars || Crap || 3.5 stars and below means a large percentage of people have a bad experience at the shop.
 |}
-The title text may refer to the folkloric practice of attributing a feeling of a chill to someone walking on your future grave. When Randall is back home he would like to give a bad rating on {{w|Yelp}} — a corporation that operates an "online urban guide" — and hovering his hand over the 'one star' button, he was just 'walking' over the rating on his own future grave.
+The title text may refer to the folkloric practice of attributing a feeling of a chill to someone walking on your future grave. When Randall is back home he would like to give a bad rating on {{w|Yelp}} — a corporation that operates an "online urban guide" — and hovering his hand over the 'one-star' button, he was just 'walking' over the rating on his own future grave.
-Another possible explanation for the title text is that the headstones are from people that gave the cemetery star ratings and were then murdered, having their given ratings displayed in the headstones. This in turn would explain the chill Randall feels before clicking the one-star button.
+Another possible explanation for the title text is that the headstones are from people who gave the cemetery star ratings and were then murdered, having their given ratings displayed in the headstones. This would explain the chill Randall feels before clicking the one-star button.
-Finally, the "world's creepiest cemetery, where the headstones just had names and star ratings" could simply be Randall not understanding he was in a Jewish cemetery where headstones have {{w|Star of David}}s on them. Noting that these would exclusively be {{w|hexagram}}s, rather than the more usual five-pointed/ten-edged variety of concave {{w|star polygon}} used in actual rating systems.
+Finally, the "world's creepiest cemetery, where the headstones just had names and star ratings" could simply be Randall not understanding he was in a Jewish cemetery where headstones have {{w|Star of David}}s on them. Note that these would exclusively be {{w|hexagram}}s, rather than the more usual five-pointed/ten-edged variety of concave {{w|star polygon}} used in actual rating systems.
 See also: [[937: TornadoGuard]], another comic about star ratings.

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 ! Star Rating!! Randell's Conclusion || Explanation
 |-
-| 5 Stars || [Has Only One Review] || If a product has exactly 5 stars, this means that there is most likely very few reviews, as even a single 4 star review would drop the score down.
+| 5 Stars || [Has Only One Review] || If a product has exactly 5 stars, this means that there is most likely very few reviews, as even a single 4 star review would drop the score down. The other possiblility is that is has no actual reviews and all the reviews are fake/scam reviews created by the owner of the place or a company the owner paid.
 |-
-| 4.5 Stars || Excellent || .
+| 4.5 Stars || Excellent || When a business has many costumers its impossible to please all of them (or they did please them all and some are posting bad reviews as a cruel prank). However 4.5 stars means almost everyone finds the business pleasent.
 |-
-| 4 Stars || OK || .
+| 4 Stars || OK || If it has 4 stars this means that a signifacant portion of the costumers are having a bad experience at the store
 |-
-| 3.5 Stars - 0 Stars || Crap || .
+| 3.5 Stars - 0 Stars || Crap || 3.5 stars and below means a large percent of people have a bad experience at the shop.
 |}