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A comment on How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009).

Re:How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009) by alexvay on Thursday August 31, 2017 @10:41AM (#15140630)
I think the article is missing something visual to demonstrate the actual scoring at work.

I've made a simple plot in Excel here: http://i.imgur.com/adjaLQ9.png

The number of up-votes remains the same, while down-votes increases linearly. The scoring declining line in grey is the score.

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Re:How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009) by shaftway on Friday September 01, 2017 @04:26PM (#15152120)
Here's a 3d graph showing this as a function of upvotes and downvotes. I think it's clearest with

x: [0, 100] y: [0, 100] z: [0, 1]

https://www.google.com/search?q=graph+((x+%2B+1.9208)+%2F+(x...)

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Re:How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009) by bwaxxlo on Thursday August 31, 2017 @11:26AM (#15140956)
Label the axises please.
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