Should enough users have rated the album, a bar chart will also be shown indicating how many votes each rating has.

The user may rate the quality of these reviews, and choose to work with a particular expert reviewer.

As part of their review, users must rate the product on a rating scale from one to five stars.

For instance, professional polls of the general population "rarely if ever ask users to rate them," Professor Beniger said.

After a user has rated twenty books on its five star scale, the site will begin making recommendations.

The average users of another movie-rating website known as www.IMDb.com rated the film a 6.9/10.

Each contestant is given a set of data from which three million predictions are made about how certain users rated certain movies.

Sometimes, users can immediately rate the recommended items.

The user can rate the titles during or after playback.

To create a personal station, users rated music on a 4-star or 100-point (depending on one's preference) scale.