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"'Amazon Not-too-bad' store" sounds pretty reasonable. Maybe a too-clever work around for the 5-Star problem would be to call it "100-Star," which would be 4 in binary notation. Or they could call it "5th-Star" since 4 stars is the fifth number of stars b/c the range of starts is zero indexed.

  Ordinal : Cardinal
  1 : 0
  2 : 1
  3 : 2
  4 : 3
  5 : 4
  6 : 5




The range of stars is very deliberately NOT zero indexed, you cannot rate a product below 1.

It has been a constant source of irritation in my life that I could never rate the Spawn movie zero stars on IMDB.

Consider the first star as an award for technically qualifying as a “movie” in much the same way as tree bark qualifies as food.

It’s actually the pith between the bark and the sapwood that is edible.



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