Rating System

LittleElfMan's Rating System

It's fairly straight forward. 

A star rating out of 5 to indicate how enjoyable something was.

The type of star to indicate the quality of it at the same time.

The more I think about it, the more I think this style of rating is perfect for books. Because sometimes things are appallingly written but lots of fun, and other times you can see how well written something is, but that doesn't mean you like it that much. And then silver is in the middle. Where it's not brilliant, but you're not cringing at the writing either.

I hope that makes sense, and I hope that the ratings on my reviews from here on in add that little something.


Explanation:


One of my friends once asked me what I rated something on my blog, and I had to say I didn't rate things as part of my reviews. She was firm in saying that I had to rate things. So I have been thinking about how to rate things that isn't just a straight forward 'out of 5' stars...  All types of things went through my head, using elves to rate (being LittleElfMan's blog) having it 'out of five elves' and then I played with the idea of 4.5 (for example) I could have a bloody half an elf... I decided against that. Another idea was to draw faces on my finger tips that went from progressively sad to happy depending on what the book got out of ten, and use the scanner to get an image. In the end I decided to adopt the system that my brother uses (informally) to rate the movies he sees. I quite like it, so thanks Peter for the idea.

My brother uses this because he is a fan of B-grade movies (as am I to a degree) and something can be terrible, but lot's of fun. So it might get 5 Bronze stars, which basically says its very enjoyable but really is trashy, or a guilty pleasure type thing. Similarly, something could be really well done, but a bit hard to get through, and not so much enjoyable, so it might get 2 gold stars.