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Originally Posted by kall

1 > 0

The 0 should be null. And 1 isn't comparable to null.


I'm not sure if my 'compromise' suggestion was overlooked...

On normal forumdisplay rated threads have 5 stars and it says "x votes, y average" so you have an idea if it's one person with a grudge/happy pill, or a set of people. These are present on the forumdisplay for the mods too.
A problem is you have to mouseover the stars so most people won't realise, and will likely have forgotten by the time they've loaded the thread.

If you look at the mod thread itself, the same tooltip is on the thread rating dropdown. The problem there is some descriptions are so long it can take a while to find, and again you might forget.
It would be useful if it was easier to figure out how many have voted without having to search around. The box that contains the stars has room for a class="smallfont" (x voters) line underneath.

It won't solve the problem of very few people using the ratings but at least it will be easier to judge how accurate they are.