Thread:Brandon Rhea/@comment-1807002-20210127041557

Besides that if you google "why are ratings and reviews are important?" and pulling up "About 768,000,000 results". We as consumers, fans and like minded individuals spend a good portion of time rating and reviewing anything we can watch, listen, buy, etc. People even watch/read the ratings and reviews of other people, and join in on the discussion of that. People check ratings before they'll watch a movie, tv series or try a new product. People tend to want to see ratings and provide their own ratings. If this is a Fan-dom; Fan fueled ratings naturally should be a part of it.

Digging deeper: likes, hearts and star ratings adds more interaction with the viewer (especially if comments are disabled) or can act as a gateway to commenting, community activity and discussions. Think of the obsession (in a dark humored way) that can come with likes and ratings in terms of the "Black Mirror" episode "Nosedive" once you start it—it can lead to more and more. It is a lifestyle already most are a part of in one way or another. This could be a form of interaction with viewers—we may not get another way.

Database wikis benefit by being more competitive to their other database rivals. I'll use my wiki topic as an example (Beauty Products) because it is a product database wiki; most of my rivals have a rating system. When reviewing articles on a product may it be a database site, a shopping site or a blog about 1/3 of the valued information is the rating (may it be provided by users or the author) (the other 2 parts are images and product description).

If Fandom can successfully implement rating to article pages, tie them to accounts/IP addresses, have them on a user's dashboard and then pooled to an admins dashboard—this could grant a new world to Viewers and expand Brand collaborations. Especially, if Fandom plans to ever expand into lifestyle brands that are product based. And if this is enabled/disabled the same way comments are then it should not ruffle any feathers to the general Fandom Community.

Other little perks to ratings of various types of wikis:
 * Fans geeking out over:
 * Individual episode ratings without spoilers.
 * Games, game installments or levels.


 * Fanon, personally created characters, people tend to want validation from their peers.
 * A form of Wiki insights reports:
 * See what articles need attention or more information.
 * See what articles get attention over all, rather than a short term view count insight report.

This is just a little snippet of how I think Fandom can benefit from adding an official rating system feature. 