Too many questions, very little answers on ratings

Sluvious, this is happening day after day especially on the love poems section and it happens to all the poems in that section that end up in the top rated category.

Good poems that are worthy of good praise, comments and rating get no comments but are automatically down rated by people who don't even bother to read the poem at all. Many of these poems end up below a 3.6 rating when they are clearly a 4.6 or above. I agree, I have read real pieces of garbage which I can only describe as tripe that have 4.8 or higher ratings, go figure?

But then again, there will probably be no end to this, at least not if the voting system remains the same...Although I doubt anything can be done with this problem...

All we can do is to not let the rating of a poem affect us in any way, and perhaps instead tell the writer, like Robert, how little justice the rating gives to his poem.

I am quite confident that the best writers, the best poets, will not care about the rating, as they probably are smart enough to understand how little the average vote actually means.

^^ This is true. I totally agree. The rating to me, means diddly-squat! I pay no attention to the rating these days as there is no way anybody and I mean anybody, gives a true rating.

All that matters to me are the comments. Not comments like "Great work" or "Keep it up"... Comments that actually go deeper ie "I find your poem haunting... " or "I enjoyed your poem, but there are a few things that I think could be done a little better..." It doesn't take much to give an honest opinion with structured criticism. If you don't like it then say so, but say why you don't like it and what you would suggest to make it better.

Fixing the down voting... No chance!

I was curious as to how people would feel about algorating their votes, which would mean that their voting would be fitted to a gaussian probability curve, making their average vote their mean. So people who vote nothing but 5s won't improve the ratings of people as much as those who rarely vote 5s, and those who vote nothing but 1s would do little to decrease someone's rating, but the rare 1 would stick around.