Populist

I haven’t counted, but by eye you seem to mark on a sort of flattened, short-tailed bell curve.

Alan – sorry I didn’t reply – I wuv it!

I will try and conform to the meta data – of course I need to write moar entries first.

Don’t worry – yr golden. You were fooled by the aggressive caching we do on FT. I’ll see if I can work out a way to ‘expire’ this page when you do a new popular post.

(However, next time you want to do a ‘twofer’ – like dodd/stones – i might need to tweak the presentation of the post. though if you look at that post you can see how the metadata works for that.)

Howe often is this updated as there are some with 5 votes or more and a higher than 5.8 average score and there not listed in this Top 100.

Highest ranked 10: “Israelites” (#2) – I’m amazed at this! Tho not displeased.
Highest ranked 9: “Good Vibration” (#1) – Fair enough
Highest ranked 8: “Space Oddity” (#9) – Hmmm
Highest ranked 7: “The Name Of The Game” (#17) – I can see why it’s loved so much.
Highest ranked 6: “Geno” (#23) – still wildly overrated I reckon.
Highest ranked 5: “A Whiter Shade Of Pale” (#34) – Hands up, I was wrong about this.

Not sure what the highest rated 4-3-2-1 are (not counting K Dodd obv!). I’m guessing “Imagine” and “Vincent” for the 2 and 1.

And going the other way:

Lowest ranked 10:”Atomic” (#41) – would probably be my lowest too
Lowest ranked 9: “Out Of Time” (#152) – OK, I’m not sure why I gave it 9 either
Lowest ranked 8: “Lady Madonna” (#185) – surprised how relatively disliked this is
Lowest ranked 7: “I’ve Never Been To Me” (#329) – nor have you lot
Lowest ranked 6: “Summer Nights” (#342) – this is total fun hating
Lowest ranked 5: “Amazing Grace” (#374) – only I appreciate its dronelike qualities
Lowest ranked 4: “Billy, Don’t Be A Hero” (#368) – not as bad as all that
Lowest ranked 3: “Seven Tears” (#383) – harsh!
Lowest ranked 2: “Figaro” (#384) – there are worse things
Lowest ranked 1: “Long Haired Lover” and “No-One Quite Like Grandma” (equal #385 – after 385 we’re in the land of <5 votes)

Problem solved – now I’ve gone back to “pink”

Duly noted! Once we’ve had it this way for a month or so I’ll do some analytics fu and I can work out which is more effective for getting people to entries that have dropped off the front page.

Ooh – how about a “random entry” function?

No strong feelings either way, but I would have thought people were more likely to want to comment on fairly recent entries than on the very earliest entries, and if they want to comment on something from the 60s or 70s it doesn’t take long to scroll down whichever way the chronological list is ordered, once you get used to it.

hope you don’t mind me disclosing the current votes for the 2 exact ‘9’s currently on populist
secret love: 10 10 9 8 8
dancing queen: 10 10 10 10 9 9 9 9 9 8 6

they love to love, but our readers just equally love to dance

there are strengths and weaknesses in any scoring system, but

“Ideally you would have just asked everyone to ONLY score those songs they would give a 10 to, and no other score”

would give an average of 10 for everything! we could only count the number of votes