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Pioneers of Tassie's Best Climbs 15-Sep-2016 At 12:55:48 PM technogeekery

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On 14/09/2016 Wendy wrote:
> The whole averaging out system fails when a route has very few recorded ascents and you end up with a disproportionate value of stars of new or less trafficed routes.

>There's also something to be said for knowing a crag or looking over a
>person's history when assessing their ratings and comments.

Yes, Rodw made a similar point, and I completely agree. But knowing this is subjective, and understanding the number of "reviewers" and even their experience (from online reputation points, climbing history, personal knowledge or friendship etc) all helps me to make an assessment with more input than just the developer or guidebook compilers rating. And when the traffic increases, the average ratings tend to get more accurate (or easy to put in con_text).

Not always the case - for example www.goodreads.com star ratings are almost meaningless because people overwhelmingly don't voluntarily review books they don't like - leading to an average 3.8 - 4.2 star rating for every book ever written.