User blog comment:ChristianWallis/What Really Grinds my Gears/@comment-25458443-20170110093053

In all seriousness, I can't really argue with your points even though I disagree. I just simply see it differently.

Most of what you said is an issue in critiquing stories at all tbh. At least in terms of writing "this story is good" and "this story is bad" there's really no difference

"Rating," in my eyes, is just a way to replace "good" "bad" "meh" "decent" "great" and such by puting them on a scale. Like "If 1 stood for RANCID NONESENSE and ten stood for MASTERWORK OF VISION, than this'd probably be like a 4" type deal. Any argument against is also just an argument againt just using  good" "bad" "meh" "decent" "great" and such at all. Rating takes words like that, and the sort of arbitary-ness that system may or may not have and just condenses and redefines it into an easy to understand, palpable score to give something.

So instead of writing "this is shit, and this is why" I'll give off my opinions forwarded by a 2/10 or a 1-star rating.