Rate and rank US states for food travel in the Mosey app

In the Travel section of the Mosey app, the United States is a hub that lists its states and ranks them by what travelers have rated them. You can rate a state yourself from 1 to 5 stars, add a short note, and see three boards: best rated, most rated and rising. The traveler rating is kept apart from the score Mosey works out from the ratings of places to eat in that state, and the two are never blended.

What is a destination rating?

It is a vote on a place as somewhere to travel for food. A state, a city or a town can each be rated. You give a rating from 1 to 5, to one decimal place if you like (4.3, for example), and can add a note of up to 280 characters for other travelers.

You have one rating per place and can edit it later. A note goes through the same text filter as other content on Mosey.

Who can rate?

Anyone with an account, signed in. Ratings pass the same checks as other content on Mosey, including a rate limit that depends on how old the account is, and a rating can be reported and hidden if it breaks the rules.

How are US states shown?

In the United States and Canada, the region level in Travel is the state or province, never a county. The US hub lists the states A to Z, and the app words each one correctly: a state, a district or a territory. The District of Columbia and Puerto Rico are in the list.

Tap a state to see its page, its best cities and all of its cities and towns.

What are the three boards?

The Top states board has three tabs. Best rated ranks states by the traveler rating. Most rated ranks them by how many ratings they have. Rising ranks the states that were rated most in the last 30 days.

All three use the same adjusted score, which is designed so that a single five-star rating cannot put a state at the top.

The boards show five states at a time, from the top. An empty board says so and invites you to rate one you know. The Rising tab says when nothing has been rated in the last 30 days, instead of showing an old list as if it were new.

The Rising tab is the one to watch if you want to know where travelers' attention is going now. A state with a handful of recent ratings can rise past one with many older ones. That is the point of a tab that looks at the last 30 days.

Why are there two scores on a state page?

One is the traveler rating, from people who rated the destination itself. The other is a score worked out from the ratings of places to eat there. They answer different questions, so Mosey shows them side by side and never averages them into one number.

The score from places to eat reflects the ratings of the places in that state, and it can be high for a state that few travelers have rated. The traveler rating can be high for a state with fewer places on Mosey. Seeing both tells you more than either would on its own.

If the two scores disagree, that is information too, because they answer different questions: one about the places to eat, the other about the destination as a trip.

How do I rate a state?

Open the United States hub in Travel, open a state and tap Rate this destination. You need to be signed in. If nobody has rated yet, the board says so and invites you to rate one you know.

There is no minimum. A state with a single rating does not leap to the top of the board, because the board uses an adjusted score that needs more than one voice. Rate what you know, and rate it honestly.

What does a state rating do for me?

Your ratings of destinations count toward the places in your travel passport, along with places you rated or dropped a note about. A destination rating does not earn a food stamp.

It also helps the next traveler. A state with a few honest ratings and short notes is far more useful to someone planning a road trip than a blank page, and the notes are written by people who have actually been.

Can I find the best city in a state?

Yes. A state's page has a Best cities section, ranked by traveler ratings and showing the cities directly under that state. Cities in different states are kept apart, so Portland, Oregon and Portland, Maine are separate places.

The same logic applies to the cities list. It shows direct children of the state only, so a neighborhood does not compete with a city, and a city is never shown under a county.

Is this the same for other countries?

Other countries have their own hubs. Canada has a province level of its own. This page covers the United States.

A destination rating is also not a review of one restaurant. It is a view of a place as somewhere to travel for food, so a rating for Vermont is about the state as a food trip, and the restaurants in it are rated separately, one dish at a time.

How this works in the app: Rate places.

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More in the US food guides and the ranked lists of places.