Thanks for your bugreport. When more people will use the popularity contest we will see better data. The current algorithm is very simple and just uses a linear meaurement to give out the stars. But for some applications (xmms) you can see that community involvment helps :)
Cheers, Michael ** Changed in: gnome-app-install (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged => Wishlist Status: Unconfirmed => In Progress -- popularity stars should be spread more evenly https://launchpad.net/bugs/59977 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs