Bot Contest

I blame oraknabo's totally crappy ranking on the 10 questions which I was totally unprepared for.

I don't think I really understand the rankings. First, Davine is higher than both of mine. Is that because of the highter public vote? Fanboy, not surprisingly, is way at the bottom, but his numbers look better than many bots above him.

The rankings seem to have nothing at all to do with the scores, which is weird, and sad. I surely would have made a ranking system that works, especially with all the attention being put on the contest.

I just realized that the contest has less of a voting system and more of a rating system. You're able to vote for (rate) as many Bots as you wish. So you dont just need to vote once for the best- you can vote for as many as you want, for example, giving one a score of 5, another a 10, and a different Bot a 2.

ATTENTION!===============
You can vote for as many bots as you like! But you can only vote once for each bot. If you vote more than once for the same bot, only the last vote is counted.
(worst) 1-2-3-4-5 (average)-6-7-8-9-10 (best)

If you're on a Mac, the only browser that seems to work for voting is Omniweb for OS X. Possibly also Explorer for OS 9. I havent tried that one yet.

I was looking at the bot profile pages and didn't like the generic bot images they had up so I sent these:
http://www.newterminus.com/bots/oraknabo.gif
http://www.newterminus.com/bots/fanboy.gif

While I was at it I did a Dogh'd
http://www.newterminus.com/bots/dogh'd.gif

and Chas
http://www.newterminus.com/bots/chas.gif

Feel free to use these if you can get them to put them up.

That's awesome! For sure I'll put up Dogh'd.

Holy crap! Dogh'd is currently in 1st place when adding the point values up!
*a moment of glory*

So my theory is that the ranking is based on totals where the other 2 colums show averages. So where your averages might be lower than someone else's your total could still be higher. Maybe?

It's like the 'Lympics--no one understands that rating system. As long as the Forge guys seem to be doing so well I'll keep cheering. Here's a personal thought--our guys are among the easiest to chat with. Downloadable bots are a waste of time and some of the other ones lead us on an impentrable web-click finger dance before they chat.

Rex.. if only. Catty is listed as third, but with scores well below the top 10-15 bots. It takes some manual crunching to come up with the right results.

jbryanc- I think you're right. Being easy to get to is certainly helpful.

About 3 weeks ago I tried a little espionage mission and tried to run all the non-PF bots to see what we were up against and on a large number I just gave up because I couldn't find the proper link or didn't want to have to install some unknown software.

hey prof can we get the bot pics to be the PF logo? I remember something about u saying that...

Oraknabo leads the voting scores now!

Shady- that was for the Botmaster Profile.. which I filled out but cant find on the site anywhere.. even though Chris says its up there..

ohhh ok

Hey rex.. I'll buy ya a drink of your choice over at dogh'd's and be your handservant for a (N number of days) if you'll make one of steve
Pwwease? Pwetty Pwease?


Only if you have time and want to, of course
--Shady

My attempt to personalize my bot page has been refused, but they're still going up on the bot photos page. If you still want one, I'll see if I have time in the next couple of days. That's it though. No more requests unless you can get me a large number of votes.