[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #7968: Proposal to update plugin star rating calculation

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#7968: Proposal to update plugin star rating calculation
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 Reporter:  JeffPaul          |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:
Component:  Plugin Directory  |  Resolution:  duplicate
 Keywords:                    |
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Changes (by dd32):

 * status:  new => closed
 * resolution:   => duplicate


Comment:

 > @codente: Let's say I reviewed it years ago and then try it again and
 want to change my review/rating years later?

 Realistically, edited reviews shouldn't be handled like they are today;
 see #7064


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 Duplicate of #1181, although things may have changed since I posted
 [https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1181#comment:25 #1181:comment:25]

 Noting some thoughts I posted on #6851 as well:

 > Another suggestion is that more recent reviews can have extra weight
 applied to them, so instead of a review from 4 years ago counting the same
 as one yesterday, yesterdays review has a much higher impact on the
 overall score. That would allow for having a singular rating, but still
 allowing recent reviews to affect the overall score, while not negatively
 affecting those with few reviews.
 > I have previously looked into that, and it changed some plugin ratings
 significantly, but the majority were mostly unaffected (or only moved
 0.1~0.5 stars).

 Additionally:
 > The biggest problem with reviews-over-time is that the majority of the
 plugins have very few ratings, relatively, making it difficult to have a
 singular rating let alone multiple of them.

 I'm going to close this as a duplicate of #1181 if you could both post
 your thoughts and revive that ticket, that'd be appreciative!

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