Average rating bug

I have force a re-sync of all albums and the TOP LIST changed a bit, so many albums needed an update.

Please comments.

I�ve PMd Max.

Nothing like this has happened on PA, so I'm rather confused...  Angra's album, Temple of Shadows
( http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/angra--temple-of-shadows.aspx ) had a rating of 4.12.  I gave a rating only of 4 stars then the weighted average jumped to 4.37.

Is this messed up?  I would expect it to not change at all, or to drop .01 not to jump .25 ...

Maybe it's just a delay in the weighted average appearing for my username?


Edited by E�rendil - 04 Jun 2011 at 7:43pm

The Angry Scotsman wrote: if you honestly care enough

Not really, I'm never going to be rating anything myself here anyway. It's just the principle, but I'm not going to waste time with personal appeals. My futile effort is better spent complaining about the new emoticons. 

The Angry Scotsman wrote: Also, I thought you were still on break from the internet???

Too much fail. 

Edited by Henry Plainview - 23 Apr 2011 at 11:52pm

Henry Plainview wrote: The Angry Scotsman wrote: According to Phil, (and I'm pretty sure he'd know ) collabs get the 20X weight, review or rating only. So yeah, I'll leave the math to you guys but that is the case. Guess another perk of collabhood. Ok, well then why is it like that on MMA but not PA? It used to be like that on PA, but Max changed it because it's a terrible idea, so why go backwards?

OK, well it is?
Not sure why you have to do this, besides the fact you are Henry...if you honestly care enough (I'm sure you do) than PM an admin and inquire about it and ask to have it changed. Might not result in anything but complaining here certainly won't do much.

Not like everything has to be the same anyway...

According to Phil, (and I'm pretty sure he'd know ) collabs get the 20X weight, review or rating only.
So yeah, I'll leave the math to you guys but that is the case. Guess another perk of collabhood!

Of course Henry wouldn't know because he came to MMA, I assume, just to flood us with ponies


Edited by The Angry Scotsman - 13 Apr 2011 at 9:45pm

Wait, is the issue that collab ratings without review are getting the 20X weighting?

I was wondering about that myself a while back
http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1454

I took Jonas' advice and PM'd Phil and this was his exact response to me


For normal user, the weight of a rating only will be ajusted if the user transformed it to a text review (100+ words)."

So if the the problem is collab rating onlys are getting full weight, it seems like for collabs the 20X weight is used regardless of review or not.

edit: it is 5 am I dont care for math....so if there is an actual bug with the rating system itself please have it looked into. The collab weighting for non reviews though is not an issue.


Edited by The Angry Scotsman - 13 Apr 2011 at 4:14am

I�ll PM Phil and have him have a look at this thread and see what he thinks.

I�ve always had trouble with the math, so educate me here. Is there a problem that needs to be reported or not?

^^^THIS!