While I certainly agree that this wasn't a good way to irk for a change, I would like to point out that it's not like there were any other options. A discussion thread for this rule proposal was not given in advance and the rule itself was brought forward and presented with a large sense of finality.
I was more talking in general about the overall tone of the thread rather than discussing the changes entirely. Discussion over things like this are expected, but I feel that the general hatefulness in this thread was rather unnecessary. I'm not necessarily calling you out on this, nor even one side of the argument. I just think we can have civil conversations about stuff like this without resorting to some of the behavior in this thread.
By this extent I assume that the actions taken against me will still stand? Including both the changes I have done to past ratings, any future ones, as well as how I write any new reviews.
At this point, yes. I'll admit I wasn't involved in the original decision, but since you decided to include private conversations...
This decision was made was for various different reasons. It's not only the fact that you've rated multiple quests that had high average ratings with a score of 1. You have also used rather hateful language in many of your reviews, such as calling things or even the quest itself as garbage, crap, or horrible. After lowering a quests ranking, you even specifically called out that you did so as if boasting about removing it from its ranking. Combine all that with the fact that you have previously discussed your dislike of the rating system, it seemed like some of these ratings were meant to make a point by being unnecessarily low rather than offer a true and fair assessment of your opinion of things.
Any further discussion is outside the purpose of this topic, though.
The biggest problem is figuring out how far off something has to be for it to be consider an outlier. If a quest only gets 5s, 4s, and 3s, does that mean that a new review with a 2 is an outlier? What about a 1? Given that a 0-5 scale don't have that many choices care will have to be taken I'd say. That being said though, I don't think this will be a change that will do a whole lot. Quests with less than 20 ratings probably can't accurately determine outliers, even more so if the quest has 10 or less. Most quests in the database don't get huge amounts of reviews/ratings though. Maybe that will change when you don't have to write reviews though? Hmmmm.
Yeah, figuring out the exact algorithm will be a bit of work. One thing to keep in mind that all outliers won't be affected, nor do I think I'll remove outliers entirely. The fewer the reviews, the less I'll affect outliers as well. I'll probably play around with outliers starting out around 5 reviews, but if it seems too volatile, I'll bump it up to 10 or even 20. Honestly, I just don't quite know what I'll do yet fully. I'll have to play around with the numbers and see what seems to sorta work the best.
possible remove them from her reviews should she want to, assuming that's how this would work?
All ratings will be split from reviews automatically, and all previous ratings (and reviews) will be able to be deleted (or altered).