Suggestion and Policy

Display Average Values for Each Rating Item
RalphieL 15 Reviews 697 reads
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Please use average ratings not the 1st few.  The current rating system is unfair to hobbyists and providers alike in being unchangeable, except by error reports and not easily searchable.  For example, if the 1st reviewer gets their facts wrong and reports the provider as willing to swallow or perform anal when she just said she might, but they never got around to it, then future hobbyists might give a worse review because they feel mislead.  However, if TER's software kept track of her oral activity and listed her as swallowing if, say, a majority of responses reported swallowing rather than spitting then everybody is fully informed.  Ditto for things like body type.  If a provider succeeds in losing some weight she should get the credit by changes in the body type rating.  Conversely, if she puts on weight and it shows up in the average ratings, she will come to the attention of those who prefer BBW's.

This has come up before. For example, see:
http://www.theeroticreview.com/discussion-boards/suggestion-and-policy-4/need-editable-data-fields-15870
http://www.theeroticreview.com/discussion-boards/suggestion-and-policy-4/agree-new-data-should-be-cumulative-15408
http://www.theeroticreview.com/discussion-boards/suggestion-and-policy-4/moving-averages-17114
http://www.theeroticreview.com/discussion-boards/suggestion-and-policy-4/we-are-arguing-about-different-things-but-the-op-still-wants-editable-fields-15422
http://www.theeroticreview.com/discussion-boards/suggestion-and-policy-4/no-no-noooooo-14301
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Providing averages or moving averages is an ABOVE AVERAGE suggestion.  
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Some suggestions require a totally new data field with no data existing from older reviews. In the case of AVERAGES, TER can process old data (I believe that they know individual scores from each review) and just create a new data field to display it.

Posted By: RalphieL

Please use average ratings not the 1st few.  The current rating system is unfair to hobbyists and providers alike in being unchangeable, except by error reports and not easily searchable.  For example, if the 1st reviewer gets their facts wrong and reports the provider as willing to swallow or perform anal when she just said she might, but they never got around to it, then future hobbyists might give a worse review because they feel mislead.  However, if TER's software kept track of her oral activity and listed her as swallowing if, say, a majority of responses reported swallowing rather than spitting then everybody is fully informed.  Ditto for things like body type.  If a provider succeeds in losing some weight she should get the credit by changes in the body type rating.  Conversely, if she puts on weight and it shows up in the average ratings, she will come to the attention of those who prefer BBW's.

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