The Topic: Rating systems

Dodger

What method does Converatron use to store/tally the ratings on threads?

I've wanted to improve the way I've been doing it on my haunted house site, but haven't done much better yet than this:
newrating=(oldrating+(.1*vote))/1.1

I suppose I should have payed better attention to my gf's statistics books.

Responses:

Joel Robinson

We actually store each vote seperately, and then take the new average after each vote, after we perform a secret weighting calculation designed to filter out people voting too high or low for no reason.

Tom Servo

"Secret weighting calcualtion?" I thought we just threw out the highest and lowest scores, like in the Olympics.

Crow T. Robot

I thought we just threatened the French judge, like in the Olympics.

Average rating: 4.55