TheFlamingCoco
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If you do that will you end up misrepresenting what the critics actually think and ultimately end up with inaccurate Tomatometers, defeating the purpose of the entire site. Sure, critics could fight their reviewing being given a false positive, but we all know the majority wouldn't waste their time doing so.
The whole point of a binary system is to make it crystal clear whether a critic recommends or doesn't recommend a film. Taking that choice of out their direct hands is a terrible idea.
Furthermore, going by the Siskel and Ebert model, 2.5 out of 4 was always a Thumbs Down, meaning that if there were some universal standard star rating (which there isn't), it would make more sense for those ratings to be Rotten as opposed to Fresh.
Even moreso, many critics don't use the 4 star system at all. Some use a 5 star system. Some use letter grades. Some use numbers out of 10 or 100. Some don't have any grading system at all. There is no way what you are proposing could ever work and produce accurate results.
Exactly. Someone could conceivably give a movie a 3/5 and decide it's "rotten", but that's his/her CHOICE.
Sure, there may be some double standards here and there, but they would occur ANYWAY.