OK Just got to ask!
Monday, March 3, 2008 by theAVMAN | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Now I know that this probably not really an issue but as my first 4.5 star skin I was very proud and it was just too big of blow too fast ,1200 domnloads in 24hrs and then boom !!!What happened???
Harley
Reply #2 Monday, March 3, 2008 2:42 PM
Reply #3 Monday, March 3, 2008 2:43 PM
Say two people bother to rate your skin. One rates it at 4.5 stars. Then the other rates it at 2. you'll see a dramatic drop in your rating.I think the difference is larger then for example 10 people rating at 4.5 and 1 person rating at 2.
Just a theory....
Reply #4 Monday, March 3, 2008 2:44 PM
Ratings even out the more people rate. Early on they can go up and down. Some like, some hate, 'tis the way of things.
I suspect someone wouldn't mention if a rating jumped up suddenly 
Reply #5 Monday, March 3, 2008 3:25 PM
They would be more meaningful if you could see the total number of ratings that were given.
Reply #6 Monday, March 3, 2008 3:29 PM
Reply #7 Monday, March 3, 2008 4:09 PM
The displayed rating is an average of all ratings receieved up to that point. When you have a small number of ratings, that averaged score will sway drastically this way and that. Once you hit a critical mass of ratings, it'll stabilize more or less "for good"
And I liked the earlier comment... no one ever asks about a sudden jump in their score
Reply #8 Monday, March 3, 2008 7:16 PM
Point well taken.
Let me say , I never meant that I expected a superb rating.I was pretty surprised that it went to what it did!
Moreover after seeing where it went to then a sudden drop I was nervous something was wrong in the wba.
While still not my personal favorite it is still probably one of my best so far and when I thought something was amiss I felt I needed to ask!
I feel a jumped the gun so to speek!
I appolgize , no more posts like this from me!!
Reply #9 Monday, March 3, 2008 8:40 PM
theAVMAN ...when I see threads about anomalies in ratings I get curious and check them out.
Smoothy currently has 26 ratings within the 2 days it's been up....so there will have been quite a bit of 'movement' on the way...but there's now sufficient to probably remain pretty stable...
Reply #10 Monday, March 3, 2008 8:52 PM
In the end, that's the most important thing.
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Reply #1 Monday, March 3, 2008 2:35 PM