I agree with Jake. There's just no way to apply any kind of standards to a reader scoring system, and it's too simplistic to say that extremes average out.
But more importantly, we really want the score to be the least relevant part of any review. A score is really little more than a placeholder; a reminder at a glance how a reviewer rated a game. The real value of a review is in the content.
Reader scores with no context at all just further detract from what we're actually trying to accomplish, which is to get people to READ about the game.
Places like Gamespot and Amazon actually offer a reader review option, do they not? Not all get printed, I know, but certainly some do. That's an entirely different thing than merely adding a scoring option.
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