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    How Not To Sort By Average Rating math evanmiller.org
    rubenbarroso avatar via rubenbarroso 2 years ago | cached | 4 comments

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    jitterted avatar jitterted 2 years ago | link

    It saddens (and frustrates) me that this is still done in numerous places.

    Also, http://www.evanmiller.org/ranking-items-with-star-ratings.html is for k-star (e.g., 5-star) ratings.

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      steveno avatar steveno 2 years ago | link

      Does anyone know off hand if lobste.rs uses this?

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        flyingfisch avatar flyingfisch edited 2 years ago | link

        I think lobsters uses upvotes - downvotes with something in there to put new comments on the top, but I could very well be wrong.

        Not sure how submissions are sorted, I’m sure it’s much more complicated.

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          fwg avatar fwg 2 years ago | link

          It is slightly more complicated https://github.com/jcs/lobsters/blob/master/app/models/story.rb#L168