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The voting ratio/Alt problem: opinions and suggestions | |||||||
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Right now it is possible to determine who is whose alt by comparing their voting ratios. I personally don’t like this. My main RP character is an incredibly annoying woman's genitals, and I wouldn’t like putting in the effort into RPing another character if people can just compare the ratios and go “Oh, that’s SG94, meh”.
I know others have abstained from voting in Forumbuildr to lower their vote counts, and I’m thinking of doing the same, but that would mean I, and others who do the same, cannot contribute on that front.
My solution (and this is basically intended as an opening bid to get a discussion rolling) is to hide the voting ratio. It serves practically no purpose whatsoever except for identifying alts. Discuss. |
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Posted On: 05/27/2008 4:02PM | DEAD fabulous person | # | ||||||
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I try to hide most of my alts and limit their posts to make them at least somewhat harder to detect. I have no idea if I’ve been remotely successful in my endevours though…
Anyway I wouldn’t mind that field disappearing from the profile completely. |
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Posted On: 05/27/2008 4:08PM | View Vuron's Profile | # | ||||||
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I think some range of randomized values should be added/subtracted to it, so tedious woman's genitalss can spend a while trying to calculate it so they can identify alts. When they have, then remove it. |
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Posted On: 05/27/2008 4:12PM | View Deplorable's Profile | # | ||||||
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To further emphasize that there is indeed a problem, have a look at Escher’s profile. She abstains from voting, yet judging by her huge forumbuildr score this is not because of a lack of interest. |
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Posted On: 05/27/2008 6:17PM | DEAD fabulous person | # | ||||||
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Well escher basically hasn’t played the games in weeks and her forumbuildr vote tally has suffered accordingly she used to vote a huge amount though. |
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Posted On: 05/27/2008 6:20PM | View Vuron's Profile | # | ||||||
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Yes, this is a huge problem. I am completely in favor of hiding the voting ratio. Mysteriousness is a good thing, and it doesn’t prevent the admins from wiping out illegal alts. |
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Posted On: 05/27/2008 6:21PM | View DeadMcMahon's Profile | # | ||||||
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Vuron Posted:
0 votes really looks like a conscious decision to hide voting ratio though. But I’m only speculating. |
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Posted On: 05/27/2008 6:23PM | DEAD fabulous person | # | ||||||
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I’d actually like to see those gone, too. Anonymous alts are almost a necessity for forum role-playing, given how much fun some people have of exposing who is really who and blowing the story. |
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Posted On: 05/27/2008 6:23PM | View MC Banhammer's Profile | # | ||||||
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I have an idea. Go through with one alt, downvote everything that should be downvoted, and on the other alt upvote everything that should be upvoted. |
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Posted On: 05/27/2008 7:29PM | View Thingysomeone's Profile | # | ||||||
Thingysomeone Posted:
voting ratios are per account, not per character. The score might turn out to be 0, but total votes show too which would be the same. |
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Posted On: 05/27/2008 7:32PM | View FAIL's Profile | # | ||||||
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Okay, since this was a super easy change to make, here’s how it works: the ratio itself has been replaced with a piece of text which summarizes your voting record. It can be:
“Terrible” “Negative” “Fair” “Favorable” “Brown Nose”
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Posted On: 05/27/2008 8:12PM | View Evil Trout's Profile | # | ||||||
Evil Trout Posted:
I like that. It wouldn’t make it impossible to find alts, yet it would still add a bit of mystery and questioning. |
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Posted On: 05/27/2008 8:26PM | View HK-47's Profile | # | ||||||
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you would have to watch very closely to see if they both change at the same time, otherwise theres no way to tell. |
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Posted On: 05/27/2008 8:30PM | Pickled male reproductive organbum... | # | ||||||
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Time to write a script that queries every profile page every 5 seconds to look for changes! |
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Posted On: 05/27/2008 8:35PM | View Sancdar's Profile | # | ||||||