p.s I am just bitter about most of my submissions going straight to -5.

They don’t suck that much.

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Yeah, but some people are just jerks like that. They either down vote to be funny, do better in Domination, get their own ideas closer to winning, etc.

The best thing you can do is to be a responsible voter yourself.

There is always the possibility that your submissions aren’t as good as you think they are. At least not to the rest of the forumwarz populace.

nanafabulous personjesus Posted:

There is always the possibility that your submissions aren’t as good as you think they are. At least not to the rest of the forumwarz populace.

I did consider that. But i am full of WIN, so it’s not a possibility for my submissions.

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Add more videogame references. They always help.

I think votes come in two categories:

10% of votes: Consider two things

1) Name

2) Length of description

40% of votes: a bumon is clicked at random

50% of votes: several rapid downvotes in anger because your idea got downvoted so fast

Edit: Although nothing is more annoying then when you click submit, then refresh the page to see your scores, and find out that someone has downvoted you in literally less than 1 second. Talk about speedreaders.

I vote based on whether the name and description make me laugh. But I don’t downvote. At least, I haven’t found anything bad enough to downvote yet.

MC Smoothlove Posted:

Oh, wow. It never occurred to me not to down-vote things I didn’t find particularly funny, or didn’t personally get. Now I feel like a huge bumwipe.

Idea: Perhaps have a designated number of reasonably trustable people do the voting, instead of the general populace? Yeah, it takes away some people’s direct impact on the game, but the quality of submissions that actually get into the game would go way up. The buildr ideas that actually take some thought to make and some knowledge to understand would actually have a chance. It’d make this a better game. In response to the fewer votes, the Domination scoop award for a +5 would go up some (depending on how many available voters ET decides to appoint), and perhaps a new forum for Flamebate where the general populace who can’t vote could post constructive criticism and their thoughts on ideas.

Personally, I got a +1 this week, but if I had not re-submitted my forum idea which got -5’d in the first 50 votes (which did well for two weeks prior, I might add), I bet my rating would have been along the lines of -2 or -3.

What if people who have voted over 100 times and over a period of at least two weeks got a “voter rating,” which adjusted the weight of their votes? For example, if someone voted positively for things that tended to win, or at least do really well, and voted negatively for things that tended to lose or do poorly, they might have a weight of 3 (their vote counts as 3 votes,) whereas someone who votes completely at random will have a weight of, say, 0.5