The point of Bjorn's site to feature the BEST male blogs, not the worst. All he's doing is putting all the "not best" into one category. I say thumbs up for doing it in a way that defeats the efforts "mean boy" crowd.

My forum site has a tread rating system built in. Generally guys don't rate things unless they like them. I've been thinking of changing it into a like system and show the number of likes instead of a rating system because what's happening is that every thread that's rated is showing 4 or 5 stars. I assume that's similar to what Bjorn is encountering - the natural distribution of ratings is not a bell-curve - so he's made it closer to a bell curve so the atypical low scores don't have too much weight.

I would suggest one change though - don't do 1=>3 in HTML - do it on the server where it's more bullet-proof and not visible to users.