Lingyis on 29 June 2007
I want to summarize 2 points here:
1) More stringent rules for counting votes.
This is pretty much a must, otherwise people might come to this site just to mock the current voting system.
2) A histogram chart showing vote counts.
This way people can look at the chart and decide for themselves what the average score doesn't say.
Statistical methods only go so far (as an academic I like them, but that's another story); but I just thought of a good practical reason for the top 5% bottom 5% cutoff. It serves as a deterent--when people see their hate votes aren't being counted, there's a chance they would stop doing it.
the Wii is an epidemic.
