Updated Sorting by rating weighted value instead of rating average value

[Bob]

We have a ton of articles in this section: Chicken Coops | BackYard Chickens

Right now the default sort order is by "views". We did this when we converted to the XF because it was the closest proxy we had for the "nicest" coop pages.

Ideally we'd like to move to a sort by "ratings"... In theory this would be BEST... but the problem is that a page with one 5 star review (let's say a friend gave it to someone's crappy page) will rank higher than a page with dozens of 4.9 reviews.

Is there any way to weight "sort by ratings" such that the number of ratings is taken into account?

How does Resource Manager do it? When I sort by "ratings" here, it looks like it's taking into account the number of reviews AND the average review, no?

When I sort by "rating", we get all the 5-star reviews first... even if it's just one review:
Chicken Coops | BackYard Chickens

Thanks!

... Suggestion from EA license holder made at private development site.

 

[Bob]

AMS 1.x has a weighted rating just like the Resource Manager, its just not being used as the default "rating" sort type, but since I am using it as the default rating sort type in AMS 2.0, I will change it in AMS 1.x.

If you want to TEST it out, just change the URL PARAM from order='rated' to order='rating_weighted'

... ... response to suggestion from EA license holder made at private development site.

 

[Bob]

This is a fairly massive change that could result in needing to update several OPTIONS and CATEGORIES (depending on if you are currently using any settings that set the sort order to RATING.

At a minimum, you are going to need to SAVE OPTIONS after upgrading as several options keys have changed from 'rated' to 'rating_weighted'.

Categories also have several sort order options pertaining to ordering by rating, so if you have those set, the system will throw errors for Undefined Index until you edit those categories and reset your sort order options.