I just saw a thread where the OP's post was rated by someone as "Awful" (based on losing about .67 for a single Awful rating), and I felt that it was a "troll" rating so I decided to rate them as "Excellent". Their average rating is 3.03 and the Awful rating put the post at 2.35 but after I rated it as Excellent the rating jumped to 3.26 instead of what I thought it would be (3.03ish).
Based on this, I don't think "Awful" ratings and "Excellent" ratings are given the same weight, and I'm wondering why this is. I've heard it takes 7 "Awful" ratings for a post to become "sub-default" (assuming the rating starts at 3.0), but I'm thinking it takes less "Excellent" ratings for a post to hit 5.0. So I am wondering what is the formula used in averaging the rating of a post.
I also just noticed that the average rating seems off as well. After using my post history I added up the ratings of all my posts and averaged them only to find that the average is about .2 lower than my actual average. So perhaps could an admin reveal both formulas or figure out why it is like this? Thanks.