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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:45 AM
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Why even bother with the "Average" rating?
Is anyone seriously going to go through all the time to go through all the posts and the ones that are "Meh" get the average rating? Isn't the lack of a rating amount to "Average" in and of itself?
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PeaceNikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:46 AM
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1. Because it's weighted.
Average can be used to offset one extreme or another.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:47 AM
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2. To knock some 'must reads' down to size
Edited on Wed Sep-24-08 08:48 AM by DS1
:shrug:

see: I just used 'average' to take this from disruptive, to skip it, which is about right :P
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-24-08 08:49 AM
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3. Crap. And now I'm disruptive!
Sad dejection:
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