Bot Contest

But then so are a lot of our bots, without their added advantage.

Ziggactly. I third deleting war votes.

And who decides if they are? If apparently some people think a 10 appropriate, then the other school of thought might think a one just as appropriate...

...and all bots ran the same "risk"... and what is funny, or good for that matter?
what to do with 2, 3, 8, 9? think it gives an even worse distortion... all bots will have encountered this in almost equal measures

I think what we are looking at is ONLY the obvious. We are talking about a person who gave his own bot a 10 while giving everybody else a 1. It would be hard to argue against removing those scores.

Chris

Chris, for clarification, in your example you would not remove the scores for someone who voted a 10 for themselves and a 1 for the top bot? What determines war votes? How many bots does the member need to vote a 1 for to be a war voter? What if they do not vote a 10 for their bot but vote 1s for 10 of the top bots?

I understand what you are doing and I think it is incredibly bad sportsmanship to go through the bots and try to derail the voting with 1s but I also think if the contest is to be altered the criteria for alteration needs to be very very clear.

I'm not sure just yet. The first thing we will have to do is get a majority in the committee before we take any action. Asssuming we do we will layout exactly how we are going to do this. No bot will be penalized. The bot will keep the 10 he gave himself. Many people have given their bot a 10 but we would remove all the 1's he gave. Some bots may benefit more than others but all bots effected will benefit. Details of how to do that will be hammered out in the committee.

Chris

Miss Mouse:
The idea behind war voters are: their bot/the bot they are 'hired' to vote for gets a 10, and EVERY one else gets a one, no questions asked. This is obviously stereotyping and a way to tip the scales in their bot's favor. Personally, I know for a fact Talk-bot will beat Steve's electronic butt if the war votes are removed, but I would rather lose honestly than lose by someone else's hand, or lose to someone who would otherwise have lost to Steve if the war voting never took place. I would be honored to beat out talkbot, but that will never happen, but I am still as honored to lose to him, he is a good bot, and the same with Little Mu, and a few others.

I gave my bot 10 for best overall bot but a 4 for funniest. Maybe I was a bit prejudiced with the 10, but it wasn't the only one I gave.

LOL.. all this is why I say the contest is bogus. In addition, if talkbot took "most of the war voting hits" then how could it be up at the top?

And now, even worse, the rules are going to change, mid contest, as usual, and usually to the benefit of the person running the site.

I stand by my original statement.

That's just because we, the people, think it should

You're just a dumbass trying to stir up shit, nobody. None of us agree with your opinion so you might as well stop expecting us to respond to your meaningless drivel.