Thread:Talk:Article feedback/Gaming the system, is there a way to have both useful ratings and conversion of readers to editors?

According to the Article Feedback Dashboard stats on the 11th of October, the article with the highest average rating in the entire encyclopedia was Rangers F.C. (with a 5.0 rating) whilst the lowest rated article is - surprise surprise - their crosstown rival Celtic F.C. (with a 1.1 rating). This is possibly the most obvious "gaming the system" of the AFT system there is but even the other articles at the "top" and "bottom" show evident gaming. Other "top" include a series of South Asia related articles including List of Nalanda College Colombo alumni, Nalanda Maha Vidyalaya Colombo, 2011 Champions League Twenty20, 2011 FIBA Asia Championship. Other "bottom" ranked articles include Justin Bieber, Barack Obama, and United States.

The Article Feedback tool seems primarily designed to try to convert readers into editors. However, in the mean time, the feedback that it is generating is *actively* unhelpful. I'm all for converting more readers to becoming editors but the tool as it currently is does not seem to be generating useful ratings information. Is there a way to have both the cake and eat it too? Wittylama 04:45, 11 October 2011 (UTC)