| ioi said: I still think that dropping the top and bottom 5% doesn't really work all that well. If I like a game enough to give it a 10 then I want my vote to count, same if I give it 1 - I think the system falls down (as does trying to find a decent normal distribution). |
Your vote would still count. The median is a damn decent measure of central tendency for which only a couple of votes "count", the way you put it... Other measures of central tendency are far better than the arithmetic mean for skewed distributions. Be it the median, the trimean/trimedian (name varies), or the method he proposed (which is used at the Olympics). All are significantly better than the mean, which should really only be used for symmetric distributions.
Yes things may even out eventually, but that may take thousands of honest votes. For every fanboyish vote of 1 you have to "overcome" in Ocarina, to get it to the 9+ most reviewers seem to think it deserves, you need 10+ votes of 10. Ask yourself if honest users to this site clearly outclass fanboys by more than 10:1. And don't forget to factor that hate voters are allowed to double vote, while honest voters just won't (or they aren't honest at all).
Because in all honesty, what happened to Ocarina today when it already had a few hundred votes to begin with, tells us you're plain wrong, and the current system is a joke, really. It will likely take a few thousand votes to "correct" that, and this site is far from being that popular.
