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      <title>Comments On: On star ratings
    
      by Brad Kaplan</title>
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    <author><![CDATA[wesleywhatwhat]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[who will be the first commenter to rate the food reviews with a 5 star system?<br>
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personally, i give this article on star ratings a 4. good but not quite great.
        
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    <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:13:09 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[NomNomNomATL]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Star ratings appeal to the diner who cannot read a 500 word review and pick out the highlights. Get rid of them all together.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 09:37:00 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[And lay cliff off]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The most radical thing you could do would be to abolish stars in favor of words.
        
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          And lay cliff off]]>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:26:18 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[NadVertising]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I only find descriptions and simple comparisons useful in food, music, or movie reviews. That's me. Everyone has read glowing reviews for things they have found abhorrent, and vice versa.
        
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    <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:41:02 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[FuziOh]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Just avoid the useless scale that Kessler over at the AJC uses. One has to read the entire review to garner any useful information, you can't just take a quick glance at the stars to know if it is a place you'd want to try or avoid.
        
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    <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 11:42:29 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Grilled with dragon flame]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Will the extraordinary five star restaurant serve unicorn?
        
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    <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:02:41 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Brad Kaplan]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Dear "So you're saying that you effectively have 3 stars to work with" - no, not saying that at all. We have 5 stars (plus a zero) to play with, but to earn 5 stars a restaurant has to be "extraordinary."
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:14:53 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Dave (361969)]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Sorry about the semi-duplicate comments. You are slow and I ony phone and impatient.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:38:42 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Dave (361969)]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I'd like to see a list of a few years of reviewed restaurants, ranked by the number of stars given.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:36:47 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Dave (361969)]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Joe's suggested listing of reviewed restaurants ranked by rating would be interesting.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:33:22 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[Four stars = "Yay! I'm a fan." on yelp?
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:04:09 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[JoeInAtlanta]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Didn't Creative Loafing do away with stars some time ago because you believed at least one of the following to be true? (1) The stars are not nuanced enough to be a useful indicator of quality.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:19:38 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[So you're saying that you effectively have 3 stars to work with]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[What does it take to get 5 stars? A happy ending?
        
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          So you're saying that you effectively have 3 stars to work with]]>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 12:53:36 -0500</pubDate>
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