Originally posted by frayed1
And sometimes when I click a blue star on someone's post, nothing happens. The blue star doesn't fill in, the yellow ones are unchanged.... ?
It's all averages, so if it's a post that has had several people voting on it, the likelihood that your one vote would move the star quantity is
reduced. If a post is ranked 4 stars but has had only one person rating it, your rating it a 2 would move it to 3. If it's already been rated 15 or
20 times, your single rating won't move the value, probably.
You have yellow stars because over the course of all the posts you've made, your average rating is 3 stars. If you've only had one post rated, and
it was rated "3", there you go.
I'm confident this'll get tweaked. At this point, there doesn't seem to be any statistical effect from posts with -0- stars. And I'd hate to be
the guy that had to build that into the equation. You'd have to account for things like at what chronological point do you start allowing posts
rated -0- to effect the rating? Since you can go back virtually to the beginning to rate posts, do you allow ratings (assuming anyone goes back that
far to rate posts) from that far back to affect the average?
No matter what you decide, you're going to tick off a slew of people. But I ain't gonna be one of 'em.
se the price was a piece of candy for every star
