Usefulness by average?

[Arigatomina]

Since we've revamped the stars and the reviews to the point where the higher number (the average of all received) determine the final score, why not incorporate something like that into the 'usefulness' score for opinions? I know, the score is already done as an average of that person's reviews given and the average number of words. But that didn't matter when we changed the reviews or the stars. Why not rearrange the 'most useful' review list the same way the other lists have been arranged - where the higher the number of reviews, the more that usefulness matters, or the higher the 'final' score?

I admit, I still don't understand the way reviews have been changed beyond the fact that the more reviews a vid gets, the higher the score (even if the factual average is low - my older vids are now ranked higher than my good ones based on the number of reviews alone). I don't care for that since those vids are *not* better, just older. But there was a lot of approval from the majority of members. They like this. Why not spread it out to include the people *giving* those reviews? This would knock off those who give one very long review while lifting up those who give medium reviews often. And really, wouldn't that be a more 'realistic' scoring system to determine 'usefulness' than we have now? Just like the star 'score' is more accurate than ranking vids according to the actual average of the individual stars?

Accuracy all around. Can this be incorporated or is it different when you're working with word counts?