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Re:Brewing a Better Rating System by mpotter on Thursday October 29, 2009 @08:39PM (#911267)
Yeah, sorting is an issue we're still looking at (and is still very much in transition considering the new rating system). Appreciate the suggestion! We'll add it to our list of potential solutions.
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Re:Brewing a Better Rating System by selven on Thursday October 29, 2009 @09:45PM (#911351)
Start everything off with a single 50-point score. That way one person ranking it 100 will bump it up to 75, the next to 83, and so on. Such a system would cause teas that have more people upvoting them to rank higher than those that just happen to have one or two good opinions.
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Re:Brewing a Better Rating System by Eliezer on Thursday October 29, 2009 @10:42PM (#911429)
That's a special case of a particular sort of Bayesian average.
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