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August 4th 2015, 09:49 PM
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Back when things got five-ten reviews the score would somewhat accurately balance out. Nowadays things are lucky to get one let alone two reviews and the score they're giving will essentially determine the fate of that file. To me, that's horrible.

There are some ways to fix this.

One: Get rid of scores. This may or may not fix the problem. If a file only has one review and it's bad then someone reading that review will be largely less-inclined to download it.

Two: Allow people to score things without reviewing them. You'd only allow users with accounts to score things, but it would probably create much more average scores for many things. You could even keep these scores separate from scores given from reviews.

Three: Incentivize reviews. More reviews means a more accurate average score. You could do this by implementing a "featured review" section on the side of the page under the lurkers area that had the latest two featured reviews. Also, one could host a review contest.

Four: Create a specific moderator to score things based on a set criteria and disallow any other forms of scoring. If you feel any score given by the moderator seems too low or too high you can argue it.

Five: You can accept that things are as they are and force yourself to live with it.