Odd ratings discrepancy

[Cheerleader Fan]

So I recently watch the rating on one of my stories drop from 4.51 to 4.48 then to 4.47. Yeah, it sucks when ratings go down, especially if it costs me the H, but that's not the unusual part. The odd bit is that the number of ratings the story has received has not changed. It has had 88 rates for about a week now. How the heck can a story's rating drop like this if no one else has rated the story? It makes no dang sense.

 

[RejectReality]

#1, only look at your private author statistics. Absolutely everything else is up to 24 hours behind.

There are "sweeps" that remove votes based upon various criteria. The primary ( and only officially revealed one ) is multiple votes cast by the same IP/ID. One of the way your ratings can change without the vote total changing is for new votes to come in while other votes are swept.

Logged-in users can also modify their votes if they so choose. So someone could come back and change their 5 to a 4 for whatever reason, and the number of votes wouldn't change, but the score would.

 

[Cheerleader Fan]

It would be just my luck that vote sweeping results in the 1s staying put while beneficial ratings disappear.