seymour wrote:There's no way in hell I'm going to read through 9 pages of this, though.
Then there's no way in hell you're going to know what's going on.
And what's worse, the specific issue of this thread took up about half of the
last thread.
And while I sympathize with how tiring it would be to read the whole discussion, try to sympathize with how tiring it is for me repeating myself over and over for the benefit of people who haven't been following everything closely enough.
But let me summarize the events that brought us here:
1) A good portion of the membership seemed to think that changes to the leaderboard system might be beneficial to MARP, so as Regulation Coordinator I embarked on a process to let the community decide what, if any, changes to make.
2) After open discussion, I thought I could probably orchestrate a single poll to pretty much decide the issue, but it would have been a little complicated, and at the suggestion of several members I decided to break the process down into a series of simpler steps.
3) At step one it was decided that we would continue to use a system where points are alloted based in part on a score's percentage of the highest score on the game, rather than a simpler system like the previous one where points are allocated simply by the placing 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc...
4) Step two would decide whether the points awarded would cut off after a certain place or not. We were almost through with this step when member Gavin Ward (SprintGod on the forum), suggested a system whereby the leaderboard would simply list players by the number of first places, then by the number of second places etc... Several members and
Zwaxy himself were immediately smitten with this idea. I was not and suggested that since it would not be in accordance with the decision to award leaderboard points based on percentage of high score, that I would continue with the process already underway. Zwaxy replied: (and I will quote directly so as to make it clear exactly what was said and who it came from, and for the benefit of anyone just "skimming" the thread I will make it in large letters to increase the probability that they read it)
Zwaxy wrote:That vote was for "Do you prefer that the awarding of leaderboard points for a submission be based on percentage of the high score, or solely on place number?". The newly 'SprintGod' system proposes that we don't award leaderboard points at all, but merely sort by number of 1st places, then number of 2nd places, then number of 3rd places. This isn't a point based system, and nothing like it had been proposed at the time of the first poll. The first poll assumed we would be awarding leaderboard points. The community hasn't voted on whether we should award points or not.
"whether we should award points or not."...that's a yes or no question in my mind, only two options possible.
Now, I am only the Regulation Coordinator at MARP, and only for another 7 months and 26 days. Zwaxy is the
owner. Under his name in the "Positions" section of the Election Procedure page it reads: "Rights: All, Responsibilities: All"...and so I proceeded in accordance with his wishes, and I've taken a lot of shit for it from people that don't know what they are talking about.
5) I made the last poll as per Zwaxy's suggestion and
the community made it's decision. It's not what I would have chosen, but so be it.
And that's how we got where we stand now.
seymour wrote:As much as I'd hate to prolong this crap...
No chance of that. For the time being - it's over.
