we replaced thumbs up, thumbs down with two sets of five-star ratings. One was for quality and the other was for importance.

When I’m looking for some collective intelligence on movies or TV shows that I might want to see, I tend to favor Metacritic over Rotten Tomatoes, because Rotten Tomatoes focuses more on a thumbs up, thumbs down, and Metacritic focuses more on a gradient. And it seems like even though thumbs up and thumbs down might be better foregoing this... See more