Fortunato Posted:

Considering only one can win per week, can we reduce the maximum number of submissions per player?

This is probably a bad idea. Allowing everyone to increase their buildr scores through time, quality and effort over time gives people to do, and incentive to do it. More entries in the pool isn’t at all necessarily a bad thing, since the most popular entries will still float slowly up to the top to be viewed slightly more often than the “bad” or unpopular ones.

More entries, pages of them even, also reduces the chance that inferior suggestions will get through, since the user has a lot more to look at to “compare” which entries are “good” and to choose one or more that speak more directly to them.

No one is forcing anyone to vote for any entries. Seeing that there are ten pages of them therefore shouldn’t feel like an obligation. Long-term, with more players, the same result will roughly occur if you voted on 10 pages or 2.

More entries also means it’s more work for people to “cheat,” mbum downvote, or cherry-pick their votes. This is clearly a good thing.

meeeeeee Posted:

Considering forum submissions are the ones which get the most voting activity, it’s an obvious place to concentrate all those excess submissions, since you can resubmit the same forums each week. Create a bunch of forums and keep reusing = guaranteed chocolate scoops for dom.

They need to be capped.

You’re not understanding how things work. Just because you have a ****load of entries, does not mean they will get voted on. In fact, you may spend a year and a half of damn good submissions to be able to submit 100 pretty good forum ideas, but by the sheer fact that you did so, each one, individually, will get fewer votes. Most people lose interest in voting rapidly. Plk has one of the highest buildr scores, and many of her entries may only get one scoop per week. With more entries in the pool from other people, possibly less. Considering the amount of effort it takes to make a decent entry that can “survive,” a scoop or two in a week doesn’t seem broken.

You get an advantage for having more entries, but that advantage decreases in scope proportionally to how many you actually submit. This seems ideal. Even if we were to lower submissions, why not, say, halve people’s buildr scores? Why call for an outright cap, when caps, when hit, take away any incentive for improvement? Who would do such a thing?

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Oh. I get it. *rolleyes*

[Mod note: Everything up to the rolleyes was just fine. I’m retroactively reminding buildr posters to keep things civil, because some users complained about the tone of this post. —JB]

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