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^Were there no ratings without reviews added?

Coldness doth get away with the badness.

I am pretty sure that I read once that there is some overall algorithm involving all reviews of all albums on PA that comes into the calculation, so even though there have been no new reviews of that particular album, the reviews of other albums has caused the rating to change.

Originally posted by rushfan4

I am pretty sure that I read once that there is some overall algorithm involving all reviews of all albums on PA that comes into the calculation, so even though there have been no new reviews of that particular album, the reviews of other albums has caused the rating to change.

No, the rating value is purely arithmetic based upon the reviews and ratings the album receives and nothing more.

The chart position uses an algorithm that involves site averages, which is shown as the QWR value in the charts (which is 3.8771 for Margaret's Children).

Originally posted by GuyM

Why do these change?
Does the site recalculate them average every time it refreshes

For my latest album "Margaret's Children" it has had 51 reviews and it was 4.06 avg. 2 days ago...4.01 avg. this morning and now its 3.99 but nothing appears to have changed?

Curious

Guy

I've manually copied all the ratings for this album into Excel and done the calculation myself: the value of 3.99 for 51 ratings (inc 2 collab reviews and 2 non-collan reviews) is correct.

I can only assume you are mistaken about the total number of ratings of the album not changing when you saw the average change because the only way the average can change is if there are more (or less) ratings. The last rating of this album is dated 4/21/2012 7:06:09 AM EST, which was obviously 4 days ago, and since that was a 4-star rating it would not have decreased the average.

I deleted the ratings of a member who had two accounts yesterday, but he had not rated this album and since was an Astra fanboy he would have given it 1-star anyway which would have resulted in the average going up after I deleted him, not down.

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And, funny enough, I get a 500 error when I try to visit the album that took on of their places:

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=15201

Listen to the new Epignosis album for free- it's good for your health

Originally posted by Epignosis

And, funny enough, I get a 500 error when I try to visit the album that took on of their places:

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=15201

Indeed. That page, alongside numerous others, will not display. All the data is there when looking through the admin panel. But try loading the page in a browser and

bam

"

500 - Internal server error.

There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed."

The Progressive Rock record labels project: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=85100

^Not quite. It is back. When I tried to listen to a stream.

http://www.progarchives.com/mp3.asp?id=5707

Coldness doth get away with the badness.