At 1/9/03 04:22 PM, TomFulp wrote:
We've noticed there are users who vote 0 on EVERY SINGLE movie that comes in to the Portal, so we are now tracking your voting habits. Don't be surprised if your experience points become a big fat 0, just like your votes. :)
If you vote fairly, there is nothing to worry about. It is very obvious when a user votes 0 on everything.
I've read through all four pages of comments, and there are many points, some valid, some invalid. I'm nto going to debate on any of them.
Rather, I have a question for you, Tom. It seems, for clarification sake, that you are trying to weed out the people who simply go to the portal's most recent, open the page, and click zero, then move onto the next movie/game. That's how I understand what you're saying, correct?
I think there is a lot of confusion, with people saying they vote zero on "crap" and five on "gold". I think the best way to remedy the situation, if it's possible, is not let people vote on movies/games until they first watch them; I don't think the code for that would be hard, since it sort of mimics the inability to vote on something more than once per day. Perhaps more difficult than this is adding something that wouldn't let people vote until the movie was fully loaded, rather than just opening the window, and closing it again.
That's my two cents, anyway. It would definitely hinder their rapid progression, and, even though it would not completely stamp it out, they'd then at least have to watch the movie, or play the game, (hopefully) at least teaching them to watch before voting.