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<blockquote data-quote="KDLadage" data-source="post: 30073" data-attributes="member: 88">It was not a troll......what it was was an attept to measure the ammount of &quot;buzz&quot; that a product generates as well as the initial reaction to that product.For example, if a book generates 20 reviews, all told with an average of 4, I (personally) hold this in higher regard than a product with an average rank of 5 with only three votes after being on the shelves for a year...Some of this is fixed with the idea of waiting for 7 votes, but look at the &quot;bottom 10&quot; listing -- some of this have &quot;above average&quot; ratings... because the pool of books with 7+ votes is much slimmer... This again, is one way of keeping the &quot;three-vote wonder&quot; out of the running.I was simply offering an alternative. There are others that could be employed. For example, since the database keeps a running tally on every product, you could do something like this:(V/P) x (A-3)Where V is the number of votes the product received; P is the average number of votes each product in the database has received; and A is the average rank of teh product itself.This would give a slight buzz factor, cause low ranking votes to push the product down (3=0, lower than 3 is negative, etc...)Just ideas.That is all they are.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KDLadage, post: 30073, member: 88"] [b]It was not a troll...[/b] ...what it was was an attept to measure the ammount of "buzz" that a product generates as well as the initial reaction to that product. For example, if a book generates 20 reviews, all told with an average of 4, I (personally) hold this in higher regard than a product with an average rank of 5 with only three votes after being on the shelves for a year... Some of this is fixed with the idea of waiting for 7 votes, but look at the "bottom 10" listing -- some of this have "above average" ratings... because the pool of books with 7+ votes is much slimmer... This again, is one way of keeping the "three-vote wonder" out of the running. I was simply offering an alternative. There are others that could be employed. For example, since the database keeps a running tally on every product, you could do something like this: [font=courier new][b](V/P) x (A-3)[/b][/font] Where [b]V[/b] is the number of votes the product received; [b]P[/b] is the average number of votes each product in the database has received; and [b]A[/b] is the average rank of teh product itself. This would give a slight buzz factor, cause low ranking votes to push the product down (3=0, lower than 3 is negative, etc...) Just ideas. That is all they are. [/QUOTE]

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