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2020-01-08 21:32

Kickback

Registered: Apr 2004
Posts: 97

Compo voting

I'm pretty sure this has been asked before, but I'm just curious, and don't mean to open dead horse.

Maybe viewing of voting during a compo should be turned off.
The reason being, is (ofcourse) the downvoting crap, that has been going on for years.

If CSDB doesn't want to fix it, then just turn it off (viewing) during a compo, and have it where folks can only vote.
Once the compo is over, then it can be turned back on, and everybody is happy :)

Just my 2cents
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2020-01-10 09:45

Flotsam

Registered: Jan 2004
Posts: 81

I don't know how CSDB's implementation of weighted average exactly works (I presume numbers differing wildly from general consensus are given a smaller weight), but I can see problems in CSDB compos based on voting since only a few people give a vote to all attending productions. So, let's imagine there are two identical productions on a compo. Person A only gives a vote for production 1 and person B only gives a vote for production 2. Person A has a habit of using full scale (1-10), but person B is the kind of lovely human being who loves everyone and everything and only uses scale 9-10. They both think the production they are voting is ok'ish, but person A votes 5(middle) and person B votes 9(his/hers low to mid). With pretty low average vote counts in CSDB this might make a noticeable difference.

Downvoting of course sucks, but even if such phenomenom doesn't exist (I sure hope it doesn't) the compo results are at least somewhat random.

Solution: Don't give a f*ck. Who cares. I personally don't give much weight on scores, but I do value every comment, be it positive or negative. This is about having fun, sharing, being social with like minded people. Anonymous votes mean nothing.

2020-01-10 10:28

Didi

Registered: Nov 2011
Posts: 479

CSDb is not made to host competitions, I know. But people are lazy and competitions where the voting was done outside resulted in very less people voting at all. So for my competitions I prefer to live with the few cowards doing strategic downvoting and encourage all others to make them effectless by placing a lot of fair votes against them.

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