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Rating SystemDear Judge,

I'd like to recommend some tweaks to your firm rating system. The topics are fine, but for some of the ratings what is a top rating is very subjective. For example for smoking in the office, a 10 is everyone smokes like a chimney (or words to that effect). That depends on your perspective doesn't it? If you're a 2 pack a day smoker, then it's nirvana, if you are allergic to smoke, it's hell.

And asshole quotient? A 10 is that everyone's an asshole. That seems sort of counter-intuitive. Drug and alcohol abuse, a 10 is that the firm doubles as a halfway house? Sure everyone wants to have fun, but don't you want the people you work with to be legally competent?

It might also be helpful to have the "what is this" section not in a pop-up, but instead right in the text next to or below each rating factor.

In truth, people probably don't think to check what the standards for each rating are anyway, they may just give the score they want and the standards be damned.



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posted 2006-02-25 22:47:21


Dear ImaVixen,

Thanks, Ima!

We're going to be going over the whole law firm rating process again to improve the whole set up. We'll definitely make the Whats this not a pop up... and we can try to add a function where voters can tell us which criteria should be weighed the most when tabulating the final vote.

Like if smoking in the office didn't mean much to you, you could put more weight on another question.
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