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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blacksway" data-source="post: 534047" data-attributes="member: 1337">Review system suggestions:Ranking (tleilaxu's suggestion):This relies on a) the rating system meaning more than it does, and by this I mean that at the moment we use a 1-5 system, which gives some indication of how much someone liked or disliked a product, but it is the actual review you should be worried about not the rating. Do have something being better than X% of other supplements doesn't really mean that much and further pushes the rating to the fore rather than the review. This is only my opinion on the whole rating/percentage/out of 10/5 thing of course. It also would reply on b) johnsemlak's suggestion...Categories (johnsemlak's suggestion):This one is a good suggestion in priniciple, unfortunately it suffers from many practical problems. 1) it is technically complex, 2) who decides what the categories are/called? 3) who goes through putting all the products into the categories? Trust me - if we run out of other things to do then we'll serisouly consider this, just don't hold your breath <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Search enhancements (the other half of johnsemlak's suggestion):There are some search enhancements in the pipeline <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Average not being average? (AaronLoeb's suggestion):Firstly, what your talking about is not median either (median is where you put all the number in a row, in order and pick the one in the middle, e.g. the median of 1 1 1 4 4 is 1 (the third number of five), the mean is 2.2 (11/5))Secondly, I don't think it would work - a) because as I mention above the curent rating is simply an estimate of how much the user liked/diskliked the product, hence the average is just a general indication of average opinion, excluding some because they happen to disagree with someone else is surely not fair? b) how do you decide which ones to exclude? say you only have three reviews, 1, 4 and 5. Should your new average exclude both 1 and 5? giving an average of 4, but based on only 1 review? is an average of 3.3 really that different, and perhaps more accurate because its based on 3 reviews? Who says the people who scored it at 4 and 5 are right? and the one on 1 wrong? its only their opinion after all. If you really want to find out what the product is like, then read the reviews and find out WHY they liked/disliked the product.Well enough of my ranting. If you have any comments on a particular one of these issues then start another thread (or email me), and leave this one for more suggested improvements, for both messageboards, news and reviews!Oh, and my new email address is <a href="mailto:sam@blacksway.net">sam@blacksway.net</a> for those who have my old blueyonder one.</blockquote>

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