I like this idea. It would definitely take care of those with malicious intent and not taking the grading seriously. Then again, I don't know how much work it would take to implement such a thing. I'd *imagine* it's just a few conditionals with # of stars, averages and score given.Ashyukun wrote:Something else to take into consideration for the automated system to watch for anomalies (if this isn't already done and I just missed it)- take into account the average rating of the video. If someone consistently just watches the top-100 page of the Top Star Scale and DLs just the videos that are there, they're likely going to have more 5's and such than someone just randomly DLing vids. If a bunch of videos they've reviewed have averages well over 4 and they've given all of them 1's, it would send up a warning flag of a possible anomalous rating behaviour.
At the same time, I think the inverse should be true too in that if a video has a ton of star-ratings and is rated extremely low and given an extremely high score. I guess what I'm getting at is standard deviations and whatnot.
At the same time, the argument can be made (and it's true) that people have different tastes and thus someone's crap is another person's Beethoven and so on.
It just goes to show that there is no perfect "grading" system. We can at least try though 
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