The bottom line issue is that you want to show two orthogonal metrics with one number - interest (the number of votes) and rating (the pattern of votes).

So the problem becomes "How do I map two parameters to generate a single figure of merit" which is pretty much what you have provided some methods for. Bearing in mind though that you have two orthogonal parameters, a different way to show the vote result is as a table where rows represent (some quantisation of) ranking and columns represent (some quantisation of) interest. Method3 comes close to this concept.

DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re: Sorting Votes, Confidence & Deviations by GrandFather
in thread Sorting Votes, Confidence & Deviations by saintly

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