All the bad votes? The votes on the ps games that have been givin 1's and the nintendo games and the xbo games would be considered bad votes, the damage is still there why cant you reset any how?

Because the Nintendo games are taking back over the top ten spot and the only PS game remaining on the list is being sucessfully pushed down on an hourly basis.  Why would they want to risk not having Zelda at the top?

Don't get me wrong, but Nintendo/Zelda isn't THAT good.

Don't you guys understand, it's simple, Nintendo's games are just better :)

I will, once you get a life.

In case you haven't noticed, the problem had already been brought up with the operators multiple times, just to be nothing short of ignored. Also, comercial or not, the site is getting (much wanted) exposure, and what happened made it look bad - which as I repeatedly stated was a shame, because the core of the site (sales data) is otherwise great.

I'd like to add that I am very glad the issue was fixed, and that users' suggestions were taken into account. I only regret things had to get so bad before the problem was even acknowledged.

Far too often users are fast to criticise, but very very slow to praise. And it's not always fair, but it's a fact of life. It's just the way it works as soon as you open your door to the general public. And while I totally acknowledge that my critique above was not exactly constructive, to my defense I'll say this was not exactly my first attempt at the subject at hand. All in all, I think I've praised this site (within it and without) far more often than I've criticized it. I also don't think anyone here needs your help defending themselves, but it's just what I deserve for going public myself.

PS: I'm personally rooting for you, and your 2.8 trillion corporate mistakes.

OK, thanks for answering.

I still find it strange how volatile certain games were with very little new votes, even before the first reports of out of bounds votes surfaced (once the scores got above 10). So, I assumed this issue was older than those first reports. But if you're sure no out of bounds votes had been registred by then, I guess I'll have no choice but believe you, as you alone own all the data.

About fanboy votes, the problem is that we're always working on a bounded scale (hopefully), so it's much easier for a small number disagreeing fanboys to push a good game down (or a bad game up) than it is for others (honest and otherwise) to compensate. That's why the plain average doesn't work so well - the distribution is never symmetric. Also games with fewer votes are always less statistically significant. Thus some of the suggestions a few members made.

You seem to have changed your methods, and though you've kept them under wraps, it definitly seems to be working better now, which is what matters. After all, IMDB doesn't publicize it's methods either (though we kinda know what those are anyway).