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Originally Posted by Chris
Well, I think this reflects a completely different phenomenon -- the tendency for most people to vote 4.5 or 5 for near-enough everything. (...) In terms of bias, my only major concern was that influx of 0.5 ratings for Koichi Sugiyama albums, many of them so rare that the person who rated them probably never listened.
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These are why I suggested elsewhere to not offer the ability to give a rating value directly but (also) let everyone sort their rated albums from best to worst. This would allow the site script to calculate the effective rating for each album automatically while trying to keep the average rating for the whole list at 2.75 (middle of 0.5-5.0) at any time. Such a system would make adding onesided extreme ratings impossible, and high overall ratings for specific albums more noteworthy than atm.