drop lowest & highest ratings for albums

I was reading the topic about the low Pawn Hearts ratings, that
most of the ratings are 5 stars but there are a couple 1 star
ratings that throw the whole rating off. I have noticed this with
other albums as well.

I think that if we dropped both the highest and lowest ratings
that would make the ratings more accurate. I know they do this
with poetry competitions. I don't know how many of the top and
bottom ratings should be dropped, maybe that would be
proportional to the total number of reviews?

I'm thinking that we wouldn't drop the written part of such
reviews (if there is one), just that the star rating wouldn't factor
into the overall album rating.

Any thoughts?

MikeEnRegalia wrote: But with a variable number of votes it becomes much more complex.

I shouldn't think it too big a problem to do the maths - it could just be a matter of choosing the top and bottom 5%, for example.




But I do fail to see the point in bothering. In a poetry competition the score has a meaning to something; on this site the bands aren't competing against each other for our votes... I think