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Star-ratings for online reviews would probably be actually helpful if you just excluded all the five-star reviews from the calculations (lemmy.ml)
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Companies don't pay for four-star reviews, but a person giving a four-star review liked the product overall.

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[–] christian@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess that makes sense. I wasn't really thinking to filter out terrible opinions, just filter out things that aren't actual opinions.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly. “Delivery guy peed on my cat” is not an option about the product either.