New Cafe Scoring Mechanism

by Adam on September 19, 2011

We’re constantly looking to improve Beanhunter. A big part of that is working to ensure that cafe scores have the most meaning where it counts – is this coffee worth travelling for? Starting this week, we’ll be rolling out a new scoring mechanism that weights reviews so that the overall cafe score is based upon reviewer credibility, and review quality and recency. In really simple terms, a person with only 1 review won’t affect the overall score as much as a person with 50 reviews (but it’s a lot more complex than that!). We think you’ll love this new method and that it will make the overall Beanhunter experience even better.

  • http://www.beanhunter.com/uploads/avatars/crop/130x130/avatar.jpg MacLoven

    Yea your scoring system is complex, can’t compute averages correctly or at least don’t know what its is suppose to calculate.
    Don’t like the experience

    How do I rate this site?

  • http://www.beanhunter.com/uploads/avatars/crop/130x130/avatar.jpg halfer

    Hi Beanhunter,

    I’m a new user from Birmingham, England, having found your site when searching for some local coffee places. I wonder, would it be possible in future to modify a review or its scoring? I should think it is a common enough requirement to fix some grammar or a spelling issue!

    I should think it would be okay to have reviews permanently editable, but alternatively they could be editable for a week after they are written, before freezing them for posterity :-)

    What you reckon?