Being in Beta mode means that we're constantly spotting bugs with our site and constantly sorting out fixes as we update the content. On of the main ones that we've just got working properly is sorting by popularity on our sports pub listings pages.
Now you might look at this and think it's still broken: there's places with four stars (or speech bubbles if you're being accurate) above places with five. And those with three above those with four. Et cetera.
But you'd be looking at the fan rating, not 'popularity'. A subtle difference but popularity takes in the number of people that have reviewed a place as well. It's a combined score if you like. This is in order to prevent the results being skewed when we only have a few reviews for a venue.
We want to avoid having lots of places with only one five star review at the top. Because under that system you could very easily have people 'gaming' the system (can you imagine!). Instead we want places to have had lots of fan reviews and ratings – the more ratings, the more accurate a picture we're getting.
This is wisdom of the masses, wiki-ing, crowdsourcing etc. Call it what you will but it's what our site is all about. And hopefully our listings pages make more sense.
Originally posted on Tumblr on 5th September 2011.
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