Rating Rant
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I just got hit by a 1 for my new article[^] and feel quite a bit cheated.
The average was 5 with 2 votes and then someone comes along and posts a 1 (without comment!) dropping me to 3.4 and straight to the bottom of the category.
I understand that no voting system is perfect and that it's difficult to solve all kinds of problems but such an obvious abuse should just not be possible.
What annoys me most is that this is the second time this happened to me (just not so obvious). Of course these spoiler votes get evened out over-time but as I don't expect more than 10 votes for the article I can be happy if the article raises to something above 4 in the years to come. Incidents like this take all the fun and ambition out of being a CPian :-(.
I think that these extreme low/high samples should be kicked out of the calculation but then I'm not very good at statistics so I wouldn't know how to do it properly. But I still think something should be done.... :mad: btw: see also the Voting - perhaps not?[^] thread. -
I just got hit by a 1 for my new article[^] and feel quite a bit cheated.
The average was 5 with 2 votes and then someone comes along and posts a 1 (without comment!) dropping me to 3.4 and straight to the bottom of the category.
I understand that no voting system is perfect and that it's difficult to solve all kinds of problems but such an obvious abuse should just not be possible.
What annoys me most is that this is the second time this happened to me (just not so obvious). Of course these spoiler votes get evened out over-time but as I don't expect more than 10 votes for the article I can be happy if the article raises to something above 4 in the years to come. Incidents like this take all the fun and ambition out of being a CPian :-(.
I think that these extreme low/high samples should be kicked out of the calculation but then I'm not very good at statistics so I wouldn't know how to do it properly. But I still think something should be done.... :mad: btw: see also the Voting - perhaps not?[^] thread.Welcome to CodeProject.
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