Star Ratings

[alaterdate]

If you hover your mouse over the star ratings on Goodreads and Audible the 3-star option is "I liked it" and "Pretty good" respectively. But to me 3-stars means "It was okay." It's not a book I would particularly recommend, but also not one I'd dissuade people from reading.
Herein lies the problem. If the websites are marking 3-stars as "good" instead of "okay" then in actuality shouldn't all my 3-star ratings be rated as 2-stars instead? "It was okay" (Goodreads) & "It's okay" (Audible).
Then all my 2-stars would drop to 1-star! But 2-stars is just an abysmal rating. A 2-star book is one that I would mention how I found it lacking if someone brought it up. And I save the 1-star rating for things I actually didn't like and would want to dissuade someone from reading. I don't really use star ratings in the contents of my own reviews/logs or on my website. I have a loose tag here I've been considering removing in favor of just tagging them with genres, but I do mark them on the website. So should I follow their metrics when rating books on their site?? It seems much harsher than my actual opinion.

Comments

[alaterdate]

That's a nice system. A pros and cons list might be a better alternative to even selecting a star rating at all and is more in line with how I write my own logs anyway. I'll try it out!