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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ron" data-source="post: 133036" data-attributes="member: 1020">Unlike Blacksad I am very sure about being against any weighting in the reviews. I would go with something like not taking highest and lowest scores in account, at least before a reasonable number of reviews. However, by assigning a higher weight to the staff you are implying that, a priori, their reviews are better than anybody else. Don't get me wrong, both Psion and Simon are good reviewers, but I don't think that there is reason to believe that any piece by them is, a priori, superior than a review submitted by any other member. As I have deffended before, bad reviews can be taken care by carefull management by the moderators and use of commentaries. Additionally, as someone who actually do statistics for a living, I am a great fan of the theory of large numbers. There is no way you can refute the opinion of many. Quite frankly, this particulary part of the annoucement  left me very cold about the future of the reviews section. Psion and Simon Collins do a great job, but I cannot expect that their views are superior to anyone who collaborate with this site.Regarding the new design. It appears to be good, but it did not worked properly in IE 5.1 to Mac OS X. I hope it was only a temporary problem.</blockquote>