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How is it possible for a title to have a 5% rating on TMDb?
posted by genplant29STAFFMOD on February 11, 2019 at 5:41 PM
As the TMDb rating scale begins with lowest-possible rating, that users can select, of 10%, how is it mathematically and electronically possible for anything to show 5%?
I newly added a good documentary miniseries (that easily deserves at least a 70% rating) this morning, looked, anew, this evening, and it was showing as having been given, during today, inexplicable 5% rating. How is any viewer rating of less than 10% possible? Even two people each giving a 10% (the first half-star - which no lower rating can be given) rating would still result in 10% - right?
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 12, 2019 at 10:31 AM
The API still supports the old 20 point rating scale (0.5..10). That's how.
The website enforces a 10 point rating scale, 0.5-5.0 (or 1..10).
When I get around to the extra work around ratings, I will probably round all of the all 20 point ratings into the 10 point scale. So that all ratings are on the 10 point scale.
Reply by genplant29
on February 12, 2019 at 10:42 AM
Thanks for the explanation. I thought 5% was literally impossible - so was thoroughly stumped when I saw it happen. Unfortunately the paltry 5% rating that someone gave yesterday completely destroyed the deserved 80% rating I gave the well-done BBC/PBS documentary in question.
Reply by talestalker
on February 12, 2019 at 12:03 PM
May I ask what is the documentary in question? (I don't want vote for something I didn't see, I'm just curious
. )
Reply by genplant29
on February 12, 2019 at 12:14 PM
It's the following 2-parts production:
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/86727-princess-margaret-the-rebel-royal?language=en-US
On IMDb it presently has a 7.5 (= 75%) rating, which, in my opinion, is spot-on.