One bombed

[TheWritingGroup]

Tell me why this wouldn't help (and wouldn't be easy to implement):

Instead of just on rating, set the position of stories in the lists by some algorithm that takes into account average rating score and reader/rater ratio. That means that a bunch of one-bombs would lower the score, but raise the ratio of readers to voters.

There's no absolute fix, but that would seem to dilute the effect of "Suddenly 10 votes for 1 star appear."

It would hurt me, I seem to have sub-average readers per rating, but even I don't think my own ranking is important.

 

[TheLobster]

Tell me why this wouldn't help (and wouldn't be easy to implement):

Given the inaccurate way in which Lit counts "reads" — which are really just views of the first page — relying on any kind of ratio between rating # and view # would disproportionately hurt longer stories. This alone is reason enough not to implement it.