Just a short bump, but while pondering ratings with hikago in #ab, I decided to try and test another system’s values on the melative system. I saved the technicals for the melative blog, but I hope anyone that caught the previous post checks it out and maybe can express its shortcomings.
Also featured in that post is a descriptor of what the values mean, and though they do not show on the current implementation, they are calculated and stored in the db; so little time to fix things.
I would like to say that any of these cataloging sites like ANN could just up and use such a system, but I’m afraid it would break (series ratings would swap many places), because the premise was not there in the beginning. A typical issue would be that some users’ ratings would be zeroed due to the redundancy of their votes…. I’m sure if a bunch of ratings went for zero contribution it would cause a ruckus. While it is possible, I don’t recommend restricting list size.
