Title: Voting system question
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Voting system question

 *  Resolved [david](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidroose/)
 * (@davidroose)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/voting-system-question/)
 * Hello, first off, your plugin works really well and I love it. My question though
   is about the rating system. If I display the ratings highest to lowest (get_highest_rated_category(
   13, ‘post’, 0, 15)) the ratings work okay.
 * The problem I’m encountering is that when someone votes any post with a rating
   of 5, it automatically bubbles up to the highest rated post. When there could
   be other posts with many votes, but maybe a total average rating of 4.5 for example.
   How do you add weight to the ratings so that posts with let’s say only one vote,
   with a rating of 5, don’t rate higher than let’s say a post with 10 votes, with
   a rating of 4.5?
 * I hope I’m explaining this okay. It just seems to be a bit unfair when posts 
   get only one vote of 5, and there are other posts with many other votes with 
   a slightly lesser value.
 * Thanks, David.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-postratings/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-postratings/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Lester Chan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gamerz/)
 * (@gamerz)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/voting-system-question/#post-4993892)
 * You might want to use the score instead. It is the internal simple weighting 
   system. [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-postratings/faq/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-postratings/faq/)
   look for score
 * 1 vote of 5 = 5 score
    2 votes of 4 = 8 score
 * etc.

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 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/voting-system-question/#post-4993892)
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