Hey, I've just joined the Lush community two days ago. So I'm new.
Looking around the site, reading some stories, I noticed how most 'decent' stories received almost exclusively 5-votes. There are of course some stories that do not fall into this category, because they are either badly written or not as likeable to most people.
I also searched the forum a bit and found that some people complain about how they got a 3-vote on their story. While having had nothing but 5-votes still. To me this is kind of strange, since a 3-vote stands for 'average' so the majority of votes should be 3-votes right?
When I tried to vote on some stories myself, I then found myself unwilling to vote so far off the other voters. If I really like a story I will favorite it and vote 5. But if the story is merely an average story in my opinion, while it had received only 5-votes until then. I could not bring myself to voting and just left the page.
As some of u might remember YouTube used to work with 5-stars. But after a while people just voted either 5-stars or 1-star. So the site changed the voting system to a like/dislike voting system similar to facebook.
I'm not saying this site should simplify to something similar. But the verbal descriptions associated with the voting (poor-fair-average-good-excellent), barely have a difference. The only reason to give a 2-vote (fair), is because you feel even worse giving a 1-vote.
Personally I think 5-votes should be used to separate the really good stories from the good stories.
So what if the votes would say this:
1 = Bad story
2 = Average story
3 = Good story
4 = Excellent story
5 = One of the best stories ever read. + voting 5, would force you to favorite the story.
If you really like the story, why would you not want to favorite it? If you don't think it's worthy to stand in your profile under your favorites, is it still worth the 5-vote?
Anyways this post is just some random thought that crossed my mind this morning. Again I'm pretty new here, so I don't really have a clue how things go on around here at Lush. But I figured it wouldn't hurt anyone, just sharing my thoughts.
EDIT: this is probably the wrong forum section, my apologies.