Evil Trout Posted:

(One dude was -260 vs +4)

That sounds like how I voted. Log in to see images!

With that in mind, I think there are two major issues that need to be addressed – the first is obviously systematic down-voting to eliminate competition, but the other would be, as Trout put, related to the quality of entries.

Here were the criteria by which I automatically down-voted:

– Anything related to any Forumwarz user, including the staff (ET, JB, etc). The Forumwarz game is supposed to represent an actual internet, and on the real internet, nobody outside of this website cares about anybody on this website. I ran into dozens of these.

– Anything that was obviously a prank. P. much stuff like “fine upstanding member of society.divy”.

– Anything without a description. I think I gave the Sarah Palin Moose**** entry a pbum because the name fit so well with the stats of the item, but I ran into a lot of entries that just copypasta’d “video file retrieved from the internet.”

– But half of what I down-voted were entries that didn’t even take the item’s stats into consideration. I saw tons of tubgirl, 2girls1cup, etc., entries that fit the douchebaggery element, but not a lot that hit on both douchebaggery and sexiness.

Beyond that, a lot of entries were just poor in quality – atrocious grammar, poor ideas, lack of lulz, etc.

I think the feature could benefit from a set of examples, linked to from every page related to itembuildr, as well as all the past previous entries. Additionally, once users have gotten used to the feature, the quality will likely improve.