"Please don't fulminate."
That means please don't post comments in which indignation overwhelms information. That lowers signal/noise and escalates activation in others, which takes us away from curious conversation.
Visually, allowing 1 to 5 stars inflates the way ratings look, because the first star is always present, even for the worst products.
Imagine if it was pie chart or a bar chart: the lowest rating would look like 20%, not 0%.
Or imagine a product where 50% of people gave it the lowest rating (1 star) and the rest gave it the highest rating (5 stars). This would be presented as a 3/5 star item, which visually appears quite a bit better than its real rating (50%).
**** (XX,XXX votes)
when displaying ratings (meaning average 4 star rating, for XX,XXX total votes) -- it is succinct and informative.
After everyone threw a ton of money into the market the hedge funds control. “Dumb money” doesn’t feel like an inappropriate nickname.