Calling all Math People: Ratings

I'm pretty disgusted at the recent events with my gallery rating. I express my opinion on an open forum, and it's taken out on my gallery rating. I would *LOVE* to have full access to who voted what. I believe that would turn over a more HONEST voter.

I also think it would be cool to throw out some votes, and possibly block a person from voting for you if they are trying to bomb you.

In regards to that, right after my post, my gallery rating dropped almost a whole point! BUT...The number of votes stayed the same...Hmmmm. I'd like to see those people thrown out of voting completely for immature matter like that. There's really no place for that. These are my CELS, DESIGN, and OVERALL you're rating my gallery on...NOT ME.

So, YES...I would love to see AT LEAST a list of who voted what.

Thanx ^_^/!

Hmm, that's no good. However, bear in mind that my definition of "bombing" ratings works both ways. To me, I see 10.0 the same way I see 1.0. It's probably based partially on the person in that case as well.

I don't tolerate excessive drama though. Especially not between a nice group of folks like cel collectors. Given the two extremes though, I guess I'd have to say that I'm flattered that many of you find value in your rating rather than considering it to be totally useless. I would like everyone to play together nicely though. Personally, I don't think I've ever met a cel collector I didn't like (or at least respect), and I've met quite a few seeing as I run a cel collecting website.

Letting people see names of those who have rated them just leads to excessive drama. Most people will only leave max possible ratings if their names are attached. Anything less will cause many to think the rating is reflective of them as a person. I've rated things anywhere from 5-10ish. It doesn't mean I don't like the person. It just means I'm trying to be objective. It's hard to be objective with your friends.

If banning people is what it's going to take to be civil, we'll do it. Please take note of this if you are trying to intentionally poison other users' ratings.

"It's not a contest."

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The first one, without getting into formulas (though I can give those if you want) is to use a weighted average with the weights' values coming from the normal distribution function centered around their current score. What that would mean is when a vote is cast, the farther away it is from the gallery's current average, the less of an effect it will have on the score. Jason, I wrote a little Visual Basic application to do this calculation, and can send you the executable (or even the source if you have VB6) if you care.
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Yeah, I was thinking something along those lines, but I was too lazy to find out what that formula was or even what to call it. I was hoping a clever person like you would know what it was so I didn't have to make it up and probably do something horribly perverted from a statistics viewpoint.

Could you mail that stuff to me? Either the feedback link in my gallery or just cut and pasted via the feedback button. Thanks. You're cool. Triple word score for you. Or wait, I'll add some of those bonus points to your account. Save a million points for a secret reward! (So secret, we don't even know what it is yet.)