I'd rather the composite rating were adjusted for how far over or under a 
user's average rating they were (if you want to get fancy, maybe by how 
many standard deviations).  I tend to start my rating for a game at 7, and 
adjust up or down from there.  I suspect there's probably a user who does 
the opposite (Starts at 3).  With the more computationally intensive 
system, you'd theoretically get a more accurate spread of ratings.  It 
would also slow down shill voters, as anyone who only rated one game a ten 
would be giving it an average rating, and even those who rate one ten and a 
few ones and zeros would have a wide standard deviation so the impact would 
be negligible.


On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 12:02:35 PM UTC-5, leroy43 wrote:
>
> If it were up to me, and the ratings were redone from scratch, I'd 
> institute a system where each user would have to choose games simply by 
> preference over other games, a lengthier process whereby users would have 
> to make binary choices of x over y until their games were ordered. 
>
> On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 8:47:19 AM UTC-8, sixtywatz wrote:
>>
>> Sites down for repairs due to the ratings being completely lost and all 
>> rankings as n/a
>>
>> Imagine if it had to start over. Would we have the same top 10?
>>
>

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