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I hate absolute ratings (e.g. 5/5 with 1 vote being ranked higher than 4.99/5 with 100 votes).

All the top games seem to have 1 report giving everything positive ratings so that other fabulous games with more ratings but say a 4.97 rating are lost.

https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...

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I believe computing (or even knowing about) the Wilson score is beyond the capabilities of your typical full-stack developer, but one could at least have the common sense to hide ratings until an item has a sufficient number of them (say, 10).

3blue1brown has a great series of videos about how you should reason about these types of ratings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8idr1WZ1A7Q

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