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    6 days ago

    The english way of telling time is stupid. In german we numerate from 0 to 24 for the whole day. 0 and 24 both mean midnight, but other then that its always clear what time you mean. In practice you can still say 4 to 4pm and everybody will understand you. But if you dont have context or want to be clear what you mean the other system is way better.


  • The problem is that most people rate the first way. If a place has a rating of a 4.5 and I thought they were pretty good, but not perfect, so they deserve 4 stars, I am not going to rate them. Having 4 stars is usually considered not that good, so lowering their score is not what I want to accomplish as 4.5 is pretty fitting in the context most people have. That leads me to giving 5 stars relativley often and not rating ok or just good places at all.