Bot Contest

Monel, Chris- that's a good idea. Will there be any voting this year?

Monel- I mean, take the results from each judge and bell curve it so that way one judge can't give a few bots 10's and the rest 1's, and also can't just give everyone 4,5,and 6.

The online voting is going to start on April 1st. To eliminate the war voting we have simplified the process. Each person can select the best 5 bots....no ranking them. Each bot would then receive 1 vote each. Bot with most votes wins Most Popular Category. Although a person could leave off a good bot he/she can't bring down their score like with the ranking system.

Simple and easy and fits the category of most popular quite well.

Chris

Shadyman - that is not how it works. Each questions is graded on a scoring system from 0 to 4. It is the same system used for the last 2 years. If the judges will follow the directions you should not have a wide fluctuations in the scores like last year.

Chris

Chris--
We have seen from experience, though, that the judges rarely follow the directions

Here's how mine turned out:

Guest: What is your name?
Siseneg: my name is Siseneg.
Guest: What is a bot?
Siseneg: a bot can be better company than humans sometime.
Guest: What do you enjoy?
Siseneg: as a rule, Guest, i don't discuss that kind of thing with people i meet online.
Guest: What do you hate?
Siseneg: i usually keep that kind of information to myself, Guest.
Guest: How do you eat?
Siseneg: if i knew that Guest, i would be rich!
Guest: Is snow cold?
Siseneg: one to four days after a flare or eruptive prominence occurs on the Sun a slower cloud of solar material and magnetic fields reaches Earth, buffeting the magnetosphere and resulting in a geomagnetic storm.
Guest: What is the color of the sky?
Siseneg: you can't be serious, Guest...
Guest: When do birds fly south?
Siseneg: the possibilities are limitless.
Guest: Which is closer the moon or the sun?
Siseneg: the Sun produces its energy by nuclear fusion. four hydrogen nuclei are fused to form single helium nuclei deep within the Sun's core.
Guest: What is the best nation in the world?
Siseneg: you know, it's funny, but it's never occured to me.
Guest: What is the opposite of indoors?
Siseneg: i wish i knew, Guest, really i do....
Guest: When was Y2k?
Siseneg: there's no time like the present, Guest.

Shady - we are going to take a closer look at the scores coming in and if one score is way out of line we are going to quiz that judge to why that is. None of this one judge giving a bot a 10 and another judge giving the same bot a 40 like last year.

Chris

Ok. I just think it would be easier to make a php backend with judges logging in and have it automatically do all the math and display scores would be a lot easier then you doing it by hand, if it's still that way.

guess what my peeps? I have arrived

It's time to vote! www.chatterboxchallenge.com ! Don't forget to vote for me!

... And me!

And me! ...grr I'm not even a bot so why the heck am I even in this contest o.0 All these people called 'guest' and stuff coming in to ask me questions as if I was some monkey on display. I. AM. NOT. A. BOT.!!!