How to calculate reputation scores?

2 points by edwyr 14y ago ↗ HN

Many web sites have an article/message/user reputation based on the up or down votes the article/message/user receives. How is a reputation score calculated given only up and down votes? (The user is not presented with a 1 to 5 scale for scoring something.)

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edwyr 14y ago ↗

I was referred to this article <http://evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html....

edwyr 14y ago ↗

Here's a sequel article: <http://masanjin.net/blog/how-to-rank-products-based-on-user-....