New Rating System

Beginning with the reviews that I write today, I will be implementing a new rating system that I've developed for this blog site. I'm changing from the five star rating system used by Amazon and GoodReads to my new six arrow rating system.

The reason for this change is that I do not give fractions of points in my ratings. Many people will rate books with half stars, such as three and a half stars, because they don't know whether to give it the higher or lower number. The only area I had I had problems with that was between three and four stars. That's why I decided to add an extra number to remedy that.

I had also thought of six such as six bullets in a revolver. The more bullets, means that it was harder to put the book down. But The possible symbols that Blogger has do not include bullets that look like ones for a gun. They do have arrows that look similar to those used in archery, so I decided to replace them for bullets.

The ratings are as follows:

     1 Arrow  -- ➷                     -- DNF (did not finish) or finished, but shouldn't have.  
     2 Arrows -- ➷➷                 -- Wasn't that good.
     3 Arrows -- ➷➷➹             -- Good, but not that memorable
     4 Arrows -- ➷➷➹➹         -- Good, Memorable with some flaws
     5 Arrows -- ➷➷➹➹➹     -- Very good
     6 Arrows -- ➷➷➹➹➹➹ -- Awesome!

I also mad a video explaining my new rating system. It can be viewed here: My New Rating System

Please post your thoughts of this new rating system in the comment box below.