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>>tortil+(OP)
Honestly, all review aggregates are kind of trash. It's crazy that we have stuck with either binary or 5 star ratings this whole time across the internet.

I had a product idea I have yet to make where you replace ratings with rankings. Instead of giving something a 1-5 review, you just answer a few quick questions whether something is better or worse than a listed alternative. You aggregate enough rankings and you can give everything a percentile score. The number is actually meaningful - a 70% means people on average think that it's 70% better than all ranked alternatives.

And you can't lie or influence a ranking as easily. "You think Rings of Power is a good show? Okay, but are you are actually going to rank it above The Sopranos?"

>>legits+D53
This might run into conflict with nuanced tastes, e.g. I would be a miserable gamer if this is how games are recommended to me because I actually really don't like very shiny new triple a shit. Spiritfarer changed my life and made me weep ugly tears multiple times in a way God of War never did, but I don't think most people would enjoy the gentle and tender approach it has towards its subject matter. [In Spiritfarer, you are a boat captain who picks up and hosts dead spirits until they ask you to take them to the gate where they are gone forever; in the meantime they share their lives with you and mull over death with you. Your only task is to care for these people until they are ready to go.]

>>Eating+2a3
I think this would help people find more games like Spiritfarer if you can cut through the obligatory noise generated for the big AAA titles.

Imagine if you had the dataset to say "remove every reviewer who ranked God of War above Spiritfarer" you would probably be left with an amazing set of recommendations.

>>legits+rb3
At that point, is it different from a general recommendation engine of users who like what you liked also liked X? [A thing which I also struggle with because I can never search based off of specific qualities no matter how many tags I search and exclude in Steam...]

>>Eating+kc3
Yes. It would be an order of magnitude more accurate. Current recommendation engines currently have account for lots and lots of false positives and are generally constrained to shared product tags.