A day or two ago I read a field report where a someone mentioned an 8 as being OK and it caused a bit of a furore. How exactly do sedditors figure /10 ratings?

I've always thought of it as a 5 being dead, down-the-middle plain and anything above that as being gradually more attractive, anything less as gradually more repulsive - as such, the majority of people I see are 4-6. On the other hand, there's the hotornot scale, which seems to start at 5.

I very rarely read any number below 5 in an FR, even for obstacles - when guys here say they're pulling 8's and 9's, are they they the fly-ass motherfuckers I imagine, or are they exaggerating and are my dreams about to get crushed?