Change Kudos to Likes?

[Angrboda]

Regardless of the above, there's one aspect of the kudos system that I've always found questionable. Correct me if I'm wrong, but my memory indicates that the average kudos figure in a person's profile is calculated as an average only for those posts that have received at least one kudo. This to me seems unnecessarily counter-intuitive, misleading, not to mention unnecessarily merciful. I think an "average kudos" for all posts, displayed right up there next to reputation points on the right hand side of a person's post would be far more useful. All the information for calculating it is there, but that seems a copout to say it isn't therefore needed.

As by way of example, let's examine a few representative (not) scores, average per kudo'ed post versus absolute average:

Myself, apophenia
1.87 versus 0.80

Minimalist:
2.14 versus 1.03 (fucking A Min, why aren't you omnipotent?)

Violet Lily Blossom
1.47 versus 0.35 (not picking on you dear; there's a place at my table for you whenever you care to grace my table)

fr0d0
1.66 versus 0.26

passionatefool
1.59 versus 0.52 (passionatefool's low total post count may make the metric misleading in this instance)

Drich
1.20 versus 0.07

Godschild
1.20 versus 0.05

I leave the interpretation of these facts up to you, as well as whether there is merit to my suggestion.