Feature Request: Hide Ratings/Scores

Seems like it would be simple enough, we already have a box to click to hide ratings from reviews, a similar box to hide scores could be next to it.

 

So funny this is being brought up. When I first started reviewing I would just try to ignore the rating but after the first hundred reviews or so I just stopped worrying about it

 

Or easier yet, try not giving a shit about what other people think.

 

I look at two ways:

If I am thinking about picking up a new beer that i am nit certain of. I will look at the ratings.

If I am rating/reviewing a beer, I don't give two shits about how BA's rank it. It is my thoughts of the beer. I will look at my beers rated so far and look at the outliers that I am either way high or way low on, but it doesn't sway my thinking. I like or don't like what I like or don't like as does everyone else

 

Spending all that money works except for when it doesn't.

https://www.bluleadz.com/blog/10-of-the-biggest-marketing-fails-of-2017

The problem is we mortals usually see only those that worked because we ignore/quickly forget the ones that didin't work.

We all have some degree of confirmation bias, even the pros.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8178540

Most folks have a motive to ignore the failures and look only at the success. (E.g., which of those big spenders would higher an advertising agency that presented a portfolio that included a record giving equal treatment to detailing their successes and failures?)

 

Believe it or not, some people don't even realize that this site and all the content we provide to it is advertising for the craft beer industry.

 

Maybe the wrong place for this, but I sometimes look at how I have rated beers of a particular style and then wonder why I rated beer A vs. B vs C etc. If I were to try them side by side how would I assess them vs. each other. It's all about a # we pick at the time and not necessarily how they compare to each other. Maybe I should look at past rating of similar beers before submitting a new rating.

 

Please don't hide scores by default. That would be a major PITA when trying to use BA while beer shopping. I usually don't buy new-to-me beers where there have been a lot of scores/reviews and a low score. Perhaps have a user setting to withhold scores for those that want that.

 

I see the scores yet I don't see them.