Over the years the way Bikechatter scores products has adapted, first it was 5 stars, then we added half points and then finally to allow for a finer tuned scoring system we implemented a 10 star rating system in 2011. When scoring was based on 5 stars we naturally scored higher quality items at 4 stars and above so this has translated in to a much higher overall average score on the site for everything.
Going foreward we felt that we needed to distinguish average products from better quality items and have scores to reflect this. In order to do this we are putting in place a score reduction, weighted on each item criteria based on what is important for each category, for sport tyres as an example we would consider dry grip more important than longevity and thus weight the overall scoring to match this.
