Back in December of 2000, I was checking out games for the PS2, and was particularly interested in a particular racing game. I bought the game, Midnight Club: Street Racing, played it, disliked it, and wrote a review about why I disliked the game on Amazon. This is where my discovery of the failure of the baserep system starts.
Perhaps I should describe baserep. I’d been looking for a term to associate with this system of rating that allows you to rate an item (and it could be any item - a game, a book, a movie, even people) on a scale, and then have your rating averaged in with the overall number of responses.
