“Highest Rated” in Directory considers an add-on with one vote of 5 stars to be higher rated than an add-on with 16 votes of all 5 stars, except one vote with 4 stars. Because of this, highly rated add-ons such as CustomField, Navigator, Animator, and Invient Charts are all in the fourth page, when they should really be in the first page of “Highest Rated”.
Perhaps a better way to define “Highest Rated” would be as follows:
Every vote of 5 stars gets +2 points, a vote of 4 stars gets +1 point, 3 stars gets 0 point, 2 stars gets -1 point, and 1 star gets -2 points. Add up all the votes using this point system and the highest point getter is the “Highest Rated” add-on.
I agree totally with what you are saying. I haven’t thought out all the possible pitfalls of your formula, but I’d say of the bat that it is better than the raw average. I’m gonna send a link to this thread to someone that might be able to affect this behavior. Let’s hope that your suggestion gets in
Thanks for pointing this out! I’m somewhat close to the Directory project, so I’ve filed a ticket about this. Unfortunately the trac is in our intranet, so I can’t link it here I, too, think something should be done, instead of just relying on the plain average.
last Friday we rolled out a minor update to the Directory application and the Highest Rated sorting is now changed a bit. I think this new sorting better reflects the overall ratings for the add-ons.
I, too, think something should be done, instead of just relying on the plain average.