Acid Flux Posted:

Why is this foolish?

People with high buildr scores can be bumholes and abuse the system if they want just like anyone else.

Acid Flux Posted:

FWZ has a significant amount of user-generated content. Those players that have made submissions that appealed to the general fanbase obviously have valuable input, and a sense of what is appropriate to the FWZ Universe.

Another bumumption that because someone has a high buildr score, they will do the right thing. Are you aware that people can and DO down vote entries in order to bubble their entries to the top and beat down the competition? Giving them the potential to have 5 times the votes can make that sort of voting much worse than it currently is.

Acid Flux Posted:

Additionally, it would be bumumed that those players that have the strongest input via weighted votes would be watched a bit more closely than the average player, so that they do not abuse their power.

Here is where you really lose me because you seem to acknowledge that people will need to be policed since there’s still the ability to abuse these weighted systems. If the more powerful voters will need to be watched, someone… mostly likely ET, will have to take the time to do that. That’s wasting time of his that he could be working on something else for the game. The ideal system would have no need to police anyone and eliminate the douchebaggery that goes on now.

Acid Flux Posted:

remove the stipulation that a certain negative value kills a submission.

This I missed the first time around. If you want to remove the ability to kill a submission, then just remove downvoting. It would be a simple upvote (+1) or pbum (0). If someone pbumes on everything would that same effect of them not voting at all and have no effect on the scores. A small group of players could no longer eliminate just about every submission in a few minutes before everyone else gets to look at them. And players couldn’t downvote their competition in order to “win” for the week.