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With this new system, the ratings change far too quickly!

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We don't actually know what the new algorithm is. I don't know if they've backed away from using the site average as a normalization, or something else. I need to PM Rachel to get her to update the documentation.

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I think it's exactly the same as before, except now it adds an extra star to the new rating.

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I checked again 2 minutes later, and some other instructables came to the first page , and some dropped back!

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I just rated an 'ible at 3.5 that had no previous ratings, and the total came up as 1 rating 3.94. It has to be a bug.

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I just rated another 'ible that was 1 rating 3.94 with a 3.5, and the total went to 2 ratings 4.00.

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Yep, something is seriously wrong, when I rate an ible 4 or 4.5 stars, it jumps to 5 stars in total. But when I rate an ible 5 stars, the gain is not that high...

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That sounds like a bug! Are you able to reproduce it by rating something that has no ratings yet? Could you create a bug report and provide a specific example where you did this?

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I did it e.g. here: https://www.instructables.com/id/Macaroni-and-Cheese/
I've already written StumpChunkman, we will see how it goes. Apparently I'm not the only one this is happening to, considering the number of 5 stars ibles...

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Thanks! PM to Matt is great; creating a public bug report also provides an anchor for him, or Rachel, to announce whenever it gets fixed. Whatever works for you :-)

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