Sort after Highest Rated – Doesn’t work

I’ve tried for hours all kinds of variations of this but it doesn’t work. I have up (+1) and down (-1) rating-options but it sorts them different than normal but not after the rating number.

<?php query_posts( array( 'meta_key' => 'ratings_average', 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num', 'order' => 'DESC' ) ); ?>

The strange thing is that sort after most rated works:
<?php query_posts( array( 'meta_key' => 'ratings_users', 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num', 'order' => 'DESC' ) ); ?>

Display highest rated works also:
<?php get_highest_rated_category(9, 'both', 0, 10); ?>

Even the URL Paramenter sorts them correctly:
https://yoursite.com/?r_sortby=most_rated&r_orderby=desc

Do you have an idea why sorting after highest rated doesn’t work?

This is the complete code:

<?php $args = array(
            'post_type' => 'post',
            'post_status' => 'publish',
            'cat' => '9',
            'posts_per_page' => 10,
'meta_key' => 'ratings_average', 
'orderby' => 'meta_value_num', 
'order' => 'DESC',
        ); ?>

<?php query_posts($args); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
    <?php get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>

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I think the problem was that I confused
%RATINGS_AVERAGE% – Display the average ratings
with
%RATINGS_SCORE% – Display the total score of the ratings

• This topic was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by s2am. Reason: Found Problem