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2007-03-19 22:37
Fungus

Registered: Sep 2002
Posts: 680
Votes

Why do some of you hide your votes? HMM? this makes no sense. And stop downvoting people just because you do not like them.

This database is supposed to be accurate, not a place for you to continue with your stupid grudges and scene wars.

a note to perff: since Secret Man, WDR etc have been deleted from this, I think you should also remove all their votes.

and get rid of this hidden voting, if people cannot publicy stand by their vote choices, then they shouldn't be voting at all.



 
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2007-06-16 12:17
CreaMD

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 3052
Quote: yeah great idea, lets invent another flawed thing to doctor the symptoms of a flawed system! simply raising the amount of votes needed before a result is shown to a reasonable value (5 ??? LOL! and you wonder the charts are crap?) would be too easy i guess :=)

It's basically the same thing but from the opposite point of view ;-). While in your solution (that actually alreay exists here) the number of votes is hard to achieve. In my solution the trust can be obtained relatively easily by voting between the existing users.

Google's pagerank works around similar idea and although it is also open to manipulation (which forced it's developers to count many other factors into the account) the basic idea of "trust" voting works better than anything else invented in the search engine world.

I'm sure this trust-distrust algorithm would work in the closed group of users especially when there is less posibility to have fake user accounts. We are of course discussing this hypothetically coz I don't believe such thing will be ever implemented here (although I could provide the algorithm I use, if Perff wanted it ;-)

2007-06-16 12:23
Burglar

Registered: Dec 2004
Posts: 1089
we've had these votediscussions for a very long time now, and nothing ever changed. I dont think anything is gonna change now, so it's another useless thread...
2007-06-16 12:30
yago

Registered: May 2002
Posts: 333
Strange Discussion... here my 0.02€:

Every real scener should vote like he wants... if all he does is downvoting, why not ?

Votes should not be public. If Votes become public, there will be even less Votes, and _that_ is the real Problem on csdb: too few votes
2007-06-16 12:35
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11360
Quote:

It's basically the same thing but from the opposite point of view ;-). While in your solution (that actually alreay exists here) the number of votes is hard to achieve.


calculating a result based on the votes of 5 users out of 3844 (~0,1%) is not a "solution" - its a joke.

looking at the top 10 groups, the amount of people who voted ranges from 11 (~0,3%) to 137 (~3,6%).

wohoho, some seriously meaningful statistics there! not!

Quote:

In my solution the trust can be obtained relatively easily by voting between the existing users.


please explain how voting and charts are related to "trust" and how giving different people different "power" on their votes would not distort the result even further.


2007-06-16 13:03
CreaMD

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 3052
Quote: Quote:

It's basically the same thing but from the opposite point of view ;-). While in your solution (that actually alreay exists here) the number of votes is hard to achieve.


calculating a result based on the votes of 5 users out of 3844 (~0,1%) is not a "solution" - its a joke.

looking at the top 10 groups, the amount of people who voted ranges from 11 (~0,3%) to 137 (~3,6%).

wohoho, some seriously meaningful statistics there! not!

Quote:

In my solution the trust can be obtained relatively easily by voting between the existing users.


please explain how voting and charts are related to "trust" and how giving different people different "power" on their votes would not distort the result even further.




Ok. So we want to achieve the system that serves the best results for majority of the CSDB users.

We can't force them to vote for every single release. But we can achieve that most of them can vote for anyone else around this system and give them from max to minimum trust points. E.g. as in the mentioned site +5 to -5 .

If you have e.g. 10 people and some of them evaluate some others. Based on how they know them (like them, trust them) whatever. Then from this set of relationships the trust rank is compiled. Not everyone has to vote for everyone else. But if someone doesn't have any relationship his trust isn't moved to any direction and stays neutral.

Usually the one who is most trusted is someone who can behave, have some responsibility and is generally accepted by the majority. On the other hand, his trust to some single users from the group of people also gives them authority. It's an intertwined system and resulting trust rank is obtained after some ammount of iterations. I use 100 iterations.

And now the anwer for your question. Someone with no trust attributed will affect the results only slighlty. It can equal to some neutral trust e.g. 50%. Someone with most distrust will go under 50% and someone with positive trust will have bigger impact on results. The way how it will be implemented into the existing "vote counting" depends on how Perff counts the votes, but generally the most trusted user should have closer to 100% efficiency on his votes. And most distrusted user should have closer to 0% efficiency. That means. The more trusted user's voting will have bigger influence on final result than least trusted. Least trusted users will have no very small inflience on results.

In the end you get get fairer results even for small ammount of votes.




2007-06-16 13:07
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11360
Quote:

In the end you get get fairer results even for small ammount of votes.


no, you will give more impact to votes by people who are most liked, and take power from people who are disliked.

i would not call that "fair". i would call it up- and down voting =)
2007-06-16 13:17
CreaMD

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 3052
Quote: Quote:

In the end you get get fairer results even for small ammount of votes.


no, you will give more impact to votes by people who are most liked, and take power from people who are disliked.

i would not call that "fair". i would call it up- and down voting =)


it doesn't work like this. ;-) it's an intertwined system.. if you simulated it in the reality it would be self-healing. If someone with big trust (e.g. CreaMD) uses his account to upvote and downvote.. then someone else who disagrees with his judgement can lower his trust to the user. The trust develops over the time. Also e.g. CreaMD is the most popular and gives someone unpopular (e.g. Groepaz) trust.. it can increase Groepaz's trust too.. such move can have interesting results on the whole system. I can't preditct how it ends but what I wanted to point out is ,that trust-distrust generally gives healthy results. Especially when it's assured that voters are existing persons (and not fake accounts). Of course this is also hypothetical, because I'm for sure be somewhere in the middle. You too, I suppose ;-). Someone like Zyron, Jazzcat, TMR and such more or less non-conflicting and respected persons would get the most trust.
2007-06-16 13:27
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11360
Quote:

it doesn't work like this. ;-)


yes it does, no matter how fancy the way of distributing "trust" is, it boils down to: i like this person, let's give his votes more power. i dislike this person, let's take power from him.

it might be a way to make the result a little bit more "healthy" (mind you, not "fair") - but it still doesnt solve the problem at all, which is like yago said: too few votes.

i'd still say: increase the amounts of votes needed before a result is calculated to a reasonable amount, and a lot of the problems discussed over and over will be gone.
2007-06-16 13:40
CreaMD

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 3052
Quote: Quote:

it doesn't work like this. ;-)


yes it does, no matter how fancy the way of distributing "trust" is, it boils down to: i like this person, let's give his votes more power. i dislike this person, let's take power from him.

it might be a way to make the result a little bit more "healthy" (mind you, not "fair") - but it still doesnt solve the problem at all, which is like yago said: too few votes.

i'd still say: increase the amounts of votes needed before a result is calculated to a reasonable amount, and a lot of the problems discussed over and over will be gone.


It's an intertwined system and yes it's not the ultimate solution, but it's easier to get trust rank of hundreds of active voters (and correct annomalies if necessary) than get hundreds of votes for every important release.

You will never get enough votes for some relases.. you will actually never get any votes for most. Just accept it ;-)



2007-06-16 13:46
chatGPZ

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 11360
Quote:

You will never get enough votes for some relases.. you will actually never get any votes for most. Just accept it ;-)


yes, and thus the charts will always be flawed. live with it.

mmmmh wait, did i say that before? =P
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