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		limelight on Dec 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uber.gov – It’s Time to Let the Government Drive Exactly. I really don't understand all the hubbub that people raise over Uber's rating system somehow being broken because: 1. Many people, like the writer, only give our 5 stars. (Simple: their votes don't really count much.) 2. People have different scales. (These can easily be rescaled.)

icebraining on Dec 3, 2014 [–]

Yeap. For example, Criticker (movie ratings site) simply ranks everyone on a 10-tier scale, so if you only rate movies up to 30%, a movie with a 29% rating with be on the 9th or 10th tier.

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