Oh, interesting. I live in the US and haven’t had much of a chance throughout my life to experience other cultures so both the ratings and “fake friendliness” very well might be US-centric.
I remember seeing a post (with lots of likes) on Finnish-language social media about some (American) video call app asking you how satisfied you were with the call and then asking what was wrong if you only gave it four stars. The person who made the post was annoyed with this behavior because they didn’t think there was anything wrong with the call, that was the reason they gave it four stars!
A popular sentiment was that four stars was the “everything went well, I have no complaints” grade, with five reserved for cases when something is really outstanding and exceeds your expectations.
Oh, interesting. I live in the US and haven’t had much of a chance throughout my life to experience other cultures so both the ratings and “fake friendliness” very well might be US-centric.
I remember seeing a post (with lots of likes) on Finnish-language social media about some (American) video call app asking you how satisfied you were with the call and then asking what was wrong if you only gave it four stars. The person who made the post was annoyed with this behavior because they didn’t think there was anything wrong with the call, that was the reason they gave it four stars!
A popular sentiment was that four stars was the “everything went well, I have no complaints” grade, with five reserved for cases when something is really outstanding and exceeds your expectations.