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[-] Deathsservant@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

The real issue is that review scores are so inflated that 1-6 indicates "bad" instead of any gradual scale of quality.

[-] alessandro@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

The real issue is that review scores are so inflated that 1-6 indicates “bad” instead of any gradual scale of quality.

This is because digital magazines tend to avoid getting on the wrong side of publishers: preview copies allow for reviews to be already publishable on day one, which is a huge source of clicks/money.

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