-1
$\begingroup$

Possible Duplicate:
5 star ratings. Bayesian or Weighted average?

Similar question, but unlike that question this deals with two factors the stars and reputation.

Lets say Stack Exchange were to have a 5 star rating system instead of up vote and down vote.

  • 1 star = 5 reputation
  • 2 stars = -2 reputation
  • 3 stars = 0 reputation
  • 4 stars = +2 reputation
  • 5 stars = +5 reputation

So far so good, as it is very easy to calculate the total reputation (just by adding).

But what if each user had a 5 star rate, instead of reputation number? How could we calculate the stars?

  • 0
    @JoshDruve I fl$a$gged the post. A moderator should be looking at this soon.2012-03-16

1 Answers 1

1
  1. You could take the average of all of the star rating of his posts. This would also mean that privileges will need new ways of being given, since a person with one post that has a 4-star rating shouldn't have the same privileges as a person with 200 posts with an average of 4 stars.
  2. You could simply convert ranges of reputation to stars. People with under 500 could have 1 star. People under 1000 have two. 2000->3, 4000->4, 8000->5.
  3. A combination of the above