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itegem is right. It has been pointed out several times at least that in situations with few votes, a single vote would be expected to affect the average score (if high, or more likely low enough) but typically doesn't. Then there's the fact that strips with a rating below 4 are *extremely* rare, and if we can be honest there are some strips that are less funny that others so it would be normal to see some with less than 4 stars some of the time. Like I've mentioned in the past, the voting system does not seem to be "statistically sound"..
I've not seen any sensible explanation for the observed behavior. My guess is there is some kind of technical glitch, and none of the probably few people that could get that fixed have read any of the relatively few comments about this. I don't suspect there is anything deliberate going on - I really doubt the success of Dilbert relies in any way on the ratings here (the votes are mostly from people who are *already* Dilbert readers). The scoring is only useful in comparing one Dilbert strip to another, not Dilbert to something else.
@fatmantheinvincible - "aggressively stupid" - that's hilarious.. not sure where you got it, but it would fit right in in some of the Dilbert strips.. :D
@ itegem
Why must you push this too far? One vote really won't change anything. 4 must be a standard, and one vote really can't push that standard so far that it will be a 2 and a half, or whatever you wanted it to be. For that matter, if a theater voted a movie 4 stars, and you voted 3, do you really think that would matter, unless others voted the same or lower? By reading your responces, it looks as if you're taking matters too personally.
