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    Bayesian Ratings (to make sort by rating actually useful)

    I guess the point that I'm trying to make is that you shouldn't need to create a complex search with a ton of filters to see 'the top rated stories'. The actual sort-by-rating function isn't really doing much if you need to create a hugely complex filter to cull things that the sorting function...
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    Bayesian Ratings (to make sort by rating actually useful)

    I think you might have misunderstood what I'm suggesting the problem is... Just to illustrate: Here's what I get if I search for Adventure stories, sorted by Ratings: Here is page 100: And here is page 250: You have to jump to page 294 to start viewing stories with average ratings of 4.9...
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    Bayesian Ratings (to make sort by rating actually useful)

    Hello! Just a quick thought: at the moment, sorting by ranking is basically useless as a story with a single 5-star rating will be placed lower than a story with 10,000 5-star ratings and one 4-star rating. This is easily fixed by implementing a simple bayesian ranking system, which is very...
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