Rating #1 Weirdness?

[PurplePoot]

Well, whenever I rate a resource for the first time (aka when they had no ratings beforehand), it seems to sort of average it with the old rating (0.00, of course).

Thus, for example

8 became 6.60

7 became 5.60

and such.

 

[Wolverabid]

I noticed the same apparent "correction factor?"..."adjustment curve?" when I first began rating resources.

I believe that the rating system is set up that way by design.

As more more votes on a resource are tallied the effect becomes less. Ralle, Daelin or other good programmers/math wizards might be able to explain exactly how the determinate algorithm functions.

Who wants to do the math? *blerg*

 

[PurplePoot]

I was just saying it's sorta silly to average the first vote with nothing in particular ><

 

[Chaos]

Any rating is just useful by mass voting, unless the counting system is not really needed.

It's fine how it is.

MAYBE A BUG, BUT YOU CAN VOTE THE SAME RESOURCE MORE THAN ONE TIME, IT JUST NEED A PERIOD OF TIME BETWEEN YOUR VOTINGS.
(this period of time I do not know exactly, maybe 24 h)

Chaos

 

[Samuraid]

num = number of ratings
avg = current average rating
x = new rating (1 to 10)

((num * avg) + x) / (num + 1)

That's one algorithm to use...

Unfortunately, once you starting getting a lot of ratings, it starts to become inaccurate due to roundoff and lack of floating point precision.

 

[HappyTauren]

heh... i thought there are downraters which probably are there though... and this problem is silly

 

[Ralle]

$amount = the sum of all ratings.
$hits = the times the resource has been rated.

$rate = $amount / ( $hits + (1/4) );

This way, maps only rated 10, once, will not appear on the top of the list.