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mterek

Avatar: 192622 2009-09-24 16:39:01 -0400
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handofg0d Posted:

If theres only a positive and a pbum vote option, there will only be votes for the ones that are good, no votes if they aren’t good. If something is obviously terrible it will just stay at 0.

There’s two caveats to that. 1) You bumume people vote for good subs, and 2) There are no spam entries.

For some people, there’s nothing funnier than successfully trolling a bunch of other people with a low cost prank. itembuildr has shown time and again that there is a dedicated bloc of these people, but the threat of their trolling is neutralized by killing their entries earlier on, thus limiting the potential exposure.

If entries are pruned, that limits the ability for these people to troll. The worst they can do is downvote an entry they don’t want to win, which does nothing if there are no entries they want to win left.

There’s usually 50 voters who participate in a typical itembuildr round, and in the first couple hours about 8 people vote, enough to kill off the spam entries early on. If those spam entries never die, and instead go the whole 12 hours of voting, they’re more likely to win than if they were eliminated at the start.

The only real problem I have with itembuildr is that it biases against truly creative entries. One could make an item that is legitimately funny to a general audience, but it’ll get downvoted for any number of reasons – jealousy, competition, or simply not finding it funny. To win, one has to appease the voters, so the entries converge on more mediocre submissions. Some good ones get by, but it’s not the norm.

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