{"assets":[],"author_link":"author\/depp\/","author_name":"Dietrich Epp","cat":"Uncategorized","categories":["Uncategorized"],"comments":[],"epoch":1343673420,"event":"","likes":21,"metadata":{"p_key":"77912","p_author":"Dietrich Epp","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"286921","p_title":"Shall we vote?","p_cat":"Uncategorized","p_event":"LD24","p_time":"1343673420","p_likes":"21","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1345766400","event_key":"12","event_name":"LD24"},"source_url":"2012\/07\/30\/shall-we-vote\/","text":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2012\/07\/30\/whats-going-on-here\/\">What\u2019s going on here?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2012\/07\/29\/again-about-voting\/\">Again about voting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/2012\/07\/29\/rating-system\/\">Rating system<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hoo boy.  Another Ludum Dare coming up, and I am going to exacerbate<br\/>\nan existing problem by also talking about the rating system.  But first,<br\/>\nI have a confession.<\/p>\n<p>I like the rating system.  Screw accuracy, it encourages people to<br\/>\nplay your game.  We\u2019re all hungry to see who made the best games this<br\/>\ntime around, so we play each other\u2019s games, rate them, and give<br\/>\nfeedback.  The rating system creates more feedback, because it<br\/>\nencourages play.  And I also like seeing the top games: the top games<br\/>\nare pretty solid games these days, even if (especially if) they\u2019re<br\/>\nshort.  And on top of that, I love having the opportunity to get<br\/>\nquantitative feedback on my game!<\/p>\n<p>So I came to talk about improving system accuracy, because I dug up a<br\/>\npretty simple statistical analysis of the voting system that shows the<br\/>\nlikelihood distribution of the top three overall ranked games from LD<br\/>\n#23, and the picture is not pretty.  (From: <a href=\"http:\/\/moria.us\/ludumdare\/vote\/\">Let\u2019s make a voting system<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Likelihood distribution of top games\" src=\"http:\/\/moria.us\/ludumdare\/vote\/comp2.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Well, it is kind of pretty, but the implications aren\u2019t.  It kind of<br\/>\nimplies that the ranking (not the ratings! the ranking!) is a bit of a<br\/>\nfarce.  I provide the mathematical model, a discussion of community<br\/>\ngoals, and a possible fix in my article.<\/p>\n<p><b>Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/moria.us\/ludumdare\/vote\/\">Let\u2019s make a voting system<\/a><\/b><\/p>","time":"July 30th, 2012 6:37 pm","title":"Shall we vote?","title_was_empty":false}