How to calculate reputation scores?

Posted by edwyr on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @11:56AM
from the self-post dept.

Many web sites have an article/message/user reputation based on the up or down votes the article/message/user receives. How is a reputation score calculated given only up and down votes? (The user is not presented with a 1 to 5 scale for scoring something.)

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Re:How to calculate reputation scores? by edwyr on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @02:55PM (#4009292)

I was referred to this article <http://evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html....

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Re:How to calculate reputation scores? by edwyr on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @03:29PM (#4009504)

Here's a sequel article: <http://masanjin.net/blog/how-to-rank-products-based-on-user-....

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