Yeah to proxy this maybe I’d imagine something like adding a virtual five upvotes and five downvotes to each comment to start it near 50%, so it’s a strong signal if you see something with an extreme value.
Maybe that’s a bad idea; makes it harder (you’d need to hover) to notice when something’s controversial.
I seem to recall some places, when sorting thinks by average rating, will use something like the lower 90th percent confidence bound on the mean. This doesn’t solve for which number to display though, as it is not a very user-intuitive number to read.
Yeah to proxy this maybe I’d imagine something like adding a virtual five upvotes and five downvotes to each comment to start it near 50%, so it’s a strong signal if you see something with an extreme value.
Maybe that’s a bad idea; makes it harder (you’d need to hover) to notice when something’s controversial.
I seem to recall some places, when sorting thinks by average rating, will use something like the lower 90th percent confidence bound on the mean. This doesn’t solve for which number to display though, as it is not a very user-intuitive number to read.