P: Add "Rating is not equal to" option to the Rating filter operators

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See the messages below that advice as well. It's Cmd-click if you need to select an non-continuous series.

Save this as a new preset in the upper right corner.

johnrellis the metadata filter was a good workaround.  Thanks.

JohanElzenga, the shift-click did not work for me.  Not sure how to explain but rather than selecting specific stars it just made that star and all below it "selected".  Likely I misunderstood something, but could you please clarify, as I would like to understand this.  Thanks!

Yes, correct. You need to use the Cmd-key for a discontinue selection, so you might as well use only that key for the entire selection.

You actually have to use a combination of Shift-Click and Command-Click (Mac) if you want all but 2 stars selected.

Yes, that is another option, and it gets even better. If you do have images with different ratings, and you still want to see all images that are not rated two stars, then use shift-click to select all options except two stars. You should then be able to save that as your "Not 2 stars" preset. Just make sure that you have a collection of images with all ratings (including no rating) like John showed in his screenshot when you create that preset, so you'll have the opportunity to shift-select all ratings except two stars. So effectively 'not equal' already exists...

Sounds like an easy to do and useful request

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I agree that adding "not equal" would be worthwhile. 

"I make those two star.  At this point, no other images have stars."

A much easier way to accomplish this than smart collections is to define a Library Filter bar preset "Rating" that opens the Metadata browser with the Rating column:

Then with just a click or two you can quickly select which ratings you want to see.

There are many things that can be done now in LR (and even more so in PS) by doing multi-step processes.  But this isn't a complex ask.  It is a very simple code enhancement which would make this filtering process faster, simpler and cleaner.  I think that is one of the big strengths for LR - to do things simply and quickly rather than needing workarounds.