Steven Frank thinks the star system doesn’t make for an effective rating mechanism.
As soon as an app has been rated more than once, it becomes mathematically very unlikely that it will ever see a 1 or 5 star overall rating again. So, it’s nearly pointless to have scales of 5 stars, 10 stars, or 100 [...]

Ebay moves to protect buyers against fraud.
Are you a five star Ebay seller? Under a new seller rating system, items you are trying to sell may become all but invisible in search results should your overall seller rating fall below a certain threshold.
Ebay last year adjusted its five-star ranking system, one of the internet’s first [...]

Conventional wisdom tells us “the internet” has simplified the job search process.
I beg to differ though. If anything, it has made the process more complicated.
Sure, we can join any number of recruitment websites, find leads, send resumes, and dispatch query emails, all pretty much instantly.
But the internet has also made the process far more invasive.
Recruiters [...]