Because sometimes I find that I rated my movies incorrectly in the past, I adjust them from time to time to better reflect how I still feel about them. But because this is quite a boring task and I never know where to begin, I made a little program for this job, that sits along my QMDB program. What the program does is show me the titles of two movies that are relatively close on my rankings list, and I have to tell it which I find better. If I select the movie that was already higher on my rankings list, then it doesn't do anything, since they're in the correct order. If I select the lower-ranked movie, it adjusts my rankings by giving both movies the average ranking. In the end some movies will have moved around a little based on my inputs, so when I'm done I adjust the rankings manually here on Criticker.
I was thinking that this could be a fun time-waster along with the "Rank More Films" feature. If you're bored, you go to this ranking game and start clicking the movie that you find better. After some time you'd see that your rankings reflect more closely the way you feel about them now.
A quick mock-up:
For those who want transparency, Criticker could show a preliminary list of adjustments after you played the game for a while showing which adjustments it will do based on your inputs during the game, before actually saving them to the server. If necessary, you could make some changes if you don't agree with the adjustments.
Oh, and obviously, if you don't want your ratings to be changed for you, then you shouldn't play this game
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