Yeah that's very misleading. You note questions from 1 to 5 then they show you an average of answers from 0 to 4 (you'll never get an average below 1 and of course probably not a linear scale anyway).
We already had that discussion when websites used star ratings where you couldn't rate 0 star...
I guess you already know that if those announcements don't include an earth shattering factorization record it's because they probably didn't achieve anything worth noting.
Control of speech through think of the children rhetoric.