While interesting ideas, I'm not seeing a whole lot of support for the "time decay" or "popularity weighting" concepts.Zwaxy wrote:Aaarrrggghhh!!!
I wish there was a clear way of sorting this out once and for all, but I still can't see it.
Having LB points decay over time is a non starter in my opinion. Just because a score is old in no way devalues it.
Awarding more points for popular games would just result in the game becoming more popular, at the expense of the less popular games. The calculations involved needn't be a problem. The 'hard sums' can be done once per day and the results cached, at little extra cost in terms of CPU time, but I don't think it's a good way to go.
So what are we left with? I quite like the "use the current system, but round anything less than (10) points down to zero" idea. (where the '10' is subject to revision). I also quite liked the "use the current system but make the 15% decay cumulative - 100%, 85%, 70%, 55%, ..." idea. That only awards points for the top 7 scores. That means the site can accomodate no more than 7 ABC uploaders before they start having to fight each other for points. In time every game will have 7 decent scores for it, and the ABC uploaders will give up. Are we willing to wait for that?
On the other hand I am seeing almost universal support for the notion that the awarding of points should have a cutoff on each game.
I was planning on letting the discussion go on a little longer, and then formulating several specific propositions (including a "do nothing" option) and after more discussion on tweaking the propositions, putting them to a vote.
I don't find that this is "changing a standing rule", but I would like for one proposition in the end to receive a majority vote in favor. Perhaps if the initial poll showed a couple of clear favorites, I could weed out the less popular ones and let them go head to head, or if there was a single proposition that receives a plurality but not a majority, I could put it by itself to a yes/no vote.
No hurry, but all members should let their voices be heard now if they have an opinion...whatever it may be.