Bamagan
Ultima Proxima
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I know IMDB does something like that, where they weight votes toward the ends of the scales differently. Their defense is that a lot of people voting at the extremes are doing so with the intention of moving the average closer to where they think it should be rather than letting it actually represent the communal opinion. Many people confess to that behavior, for what's it worth. But if the movie has a seven when you think it should be lower and you vote a five, for example, less adjustment is needed than if you voted one. So they tend to treat scores at the extremes as if some fraction of them are bullshit but still legitimately positive or negative. It's not a great system, I suppose, but it's probably no worse than letting ballot stuffers run amok.At one site, in the past, you could see the vote distribution. That ended when it was discovered there was a mathematical formula that pulled all the votes toward the center. The only votes not pulled are ones and tens when they are the sole votes. A single 9 can reduce three ten votes to an 8.7, which I would think would be mathematically impossible, but apparently not. After continuous complaints, the site admin removed the distribution scale from the votes page. A single 9 vote isn't a 9, either. So WTF?