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Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #2686, comment 2

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3	3	I think this mostly happens in some-what long tail searches where there are fewer big players. The advantage also isn't enormous, but it is present.
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5		My suggestion isn't so that plugin creators would resort to ask for more ratings, I'm not in favor of that. But instead, it's so that a having a very few number of ratings - maybe by the author themselves, maybe a friend or a handful of testers or early adopters - won't result right away in an advantage. That's why I mentioned a cut off like 20 ratings (I just pulled that number from the top of my head). My logic is that if a plugin has lower than 20 ratings, the overall rating should have a lower impact than others with 20 or more ratings.
	5	My suggestion isn't so that plugin creators would resort to ask for more ratings, I'm not in favor of that. But instead, it's so that a having a very few number of ratings - maybe by the author themselves, maybe a friend or a handful of testers or early adopters - won't result right away in an advantage. That's why I mentioned a cut off like 20 ratings (I just pulled that number from the top of my head). My logic is that if a plugin has lower than 20 ratings, the overall rating should have a lower impact than others with 20 or more ratings. But it doesn't mean that having 300 ratings should always trump a plugin that has 50 ratings. After 20 ratings, then we can assume that the overall rating has normalized to a stable value.
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7	7	For example: