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I mean, how does the thread rating stars know how many stars to show.
How does it calculate it?

And what tables is this in?

They are stored in the mybb_threadratings table. It stores the IP address of the voter, what they voted, the uid, tid and rid.

I think the OP means after like 5 different votes, how does Mybb know the overall vote.

(2011-06-21, 01:37 AM)blake Wrote: [ -> ]I think the OP means after like 5 different votes, how does Mybb know the overall vote.

Exactly

Its simple, I guess.

The system just does a simple Math calculation.

Number of star rating divided by Number of raters.

That means, if two guys rated the thread, one 5 stars, and other rated 3 stars, then here the total number of stars = 5+3 = 8 divided by total number of raters (2) = 8/2 = 4 votes in average.

Simple math.

Add up the ratings, then divide by how many ratings there are, and it gives you an average.