for some reason unbookmarking a song will sometimes drop its rating... strange. i listened to almost every song. besides the ones with 0, 1, or 2 bars. knowing "how" the rating system works is not important. just listen to a bunch of songs with the same rating. for the amount of work (or just raw talent) that went into a song its pretty accurate. there are a lot of awesome musicians on here. some should be famous.

I'm not sure of the actual ratio, but from what I understand it's more or less something * (comments + favorites) / views. If you have lots of comments or favorites and not a lot of views you get a higher rating, and the rating gradually goes down over time as more people view it, unless they keep commenting/favoriting.

Lots of comments and opinions on the question here, but, how DOES the ratings system work? Does anyone actually have the correct answer???

someone should do  that ^ and put it on youtube. it would be fun to see comments. make the episode totally unfair...

I'm looking forward to the first series of Chip Idol

Ugh, people actually both dislike and care about pop music. Just do one or the other, it's not that hard.

i wouldn't say with 8bc dying that the rules and policies on chipmusic designed to keep it from turning into 8bc 2.0 "made less sense", but rather made even more sense.. 8bc was bound to burn out run that way, staff turnover there was very high as things required far more moderation and people generally responded well to contact from admins issuing warnings... chipmusic.org, on the other hand, i think only 3 of us have left? (me, low-gain and i forget who else)... sure people might miss offtopic of the top ten based on most likes, but i have to say those two features probably created 90% of the work for the moderation team during my time on 8bc staff...

maybe it should be a beauty pagent like mainstream music.

Fuck it.

RIP

I miss 8bc

it's also affected by people adding to favourites, iirc

You guys have to understand that there was this old site that people got really heated about the likes on, and everyone who wasn't a dick came here, and then the old one died, so the weird rules meant to prevent the new place from becoming the old people all the sudden made less sense.

Nope, pretty sure it's just a total.