Ratings

[quarterthru]

Not sure what you mean when you say the one vote "destroys" / "kills" your rating. Apart from that, same response as in the other thread: Authors are not entitled to receive good ratings. People have the right to not like a puzzle, and to express their opinion by voting accordingly.

You have a good point. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and to express that opinion with their vote. And certainly no author is entitled to a good rating, but they are entitled to a proper representation of the scores they have received overall.  I'm simply suggesting that a minor change to the averaging system be made to get a better average closer to the mean.  Right now the way it is calculated, where you can give a score from 1-5, the score gets corrupted with one "out of normal" rating.  (ex. If by the 10th vote, a puzzle gets 6 5s and 4 4s the score comes out as 90% Now take that same with a 1 thrown in. 6 5s, 3 4s, one 1... 83%.)  By taking out the highest and lowest marks you get a better representation of the general rating.  You can also take note of this anomaly in the difficulty ratings.  Just because one solver finds something easy it skew the results for the actual difficulty for other solvers.  Maybe I'm just whining here, but I've seen these lone 1 ratings in my stats for a long time and it is not representative of the majority and should not be factored as such.