How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009)

Re:How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009) by spacemoelte on Thursday July 09, 2015 @04:16AM (#9856714)

I have always wondered what amazon was thinking with that way of sorting. Perhaps it's a deliberate way to spread purchases out over a span of products instead of just the two top products?

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Re:How Not to Sort by Average Rating (2009) by randomtree on Thursday July 09, 2015 @05:02AM (#9856852)

I think it's about a product discovery. If we always sort this way, new products don't have a chance.

And I don't think Amazon would sort like this, it would make more sense for them to use hn/reddit way to sort items that give a chance for the new items to get to the top.

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