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Great idea, but theres one flaw:
The popular people always have the most lovis, faves, and view. Although, the one week old sorta cancels it out.

coolperson wrote:

Great idea, but theres one flaw:
The popular people always have the most lovis, faves, and view. Although, the one week old sorta cancels it out.

JTxt suggested this.
Perhaps this can be modified for my suggestion so that the half-life of a more famous Scratcher's projects is shorter than that of a less famous Scratcher's so that more people will have to view the more famous Scratcher's project in order to compensate for the more frequent half-life.

Some other people proposed a love-it to view ratio system so that every view decreases the point value and only love-its can increase it.

colorfusion wrote:

I think views should be -1, love-its +2, and faves +5.
That way projects with only a few views, but everyone who looked at it loved it, would get more than one with tons of views but with no-one liking it.

I see your idea there, but if people saw that their project had negative points, it would make them feel bad. Sort of like the same reason we don't add a "rate from 1-5 stars" suggestion.

Lucario621 wrote:

colorfusion wrote:

I think views should be -1, love-its +2, and faves +5.
That way projects with only a few views, but everyone who looked at it loved it, would get more than one with tons of views but with no-one liking it.

I see your idea there, but if people saw that their project had negative points, it would make them feel bad. Sort of like the same reason we don't add a "rate from 1-5 stars" suggestion.

-1 (or another negative number) for views makes it so that the score becomes like a RATIO of love-it's&faves to views.
So, good projects that don't get many views may have a chance against projects that get a ton of views just because the user is "popular" or they advertise a ton.
This score doesn't have to be visible, but could be used to sort projects. 

I think it may be an improvement over "Top Loved"--  Which encourages people to get popular to get attention, which translates to more love-it's and more attention, sometimes regardless of quality.

Edit:

vortex19 wrote:

Perhaps this can be solved if a project's rating can be represented as a ratio (e.g. 0.5) or a percentage (e.g. 50) so that there can't be negative point values.

Yeah that may help.  But still regardless of how this score is shown or not shown, I think this may make less "feel bad" than just "top loved", because it may treat those that are popular and less popular the same.

Last edited by JTxt (2010-08-25 21:33:17)

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Anyone else support?

A favorite means the person likes it so much they want to have it on there home page while a love-it means, "ohh, that's pretty cool. I'm leaving now."

vortex19 wrote:

Lucario621 wrote:

vortex19 wrote:

This is to encourage quality projects over some other cheap way to get on the front page like "I Quit!" projects, a kid about to die in a flood, etc. I never really liked the "top viewed projects" row because it can easily get corrupted by such projects.

Yes, but what I'm trying to say is that saying something like "This is my favorite project" means a lot more than "I love this project" - a favorite should be worth more than a love-it. People favorite projects less likely than the "love-it" projects, thus favorites should be worth more  . I hope that makes sense.

I thought love-it are "better" than favorites. I guess I got it mixed up somewhere. :\

scimonster wrote:

this would be good.  according to your system, my labyrinth game would have:
(69*1) + (5*10) + (4 *5) = 139 points.  but it is a bit old.

This system is good - it gave me 4176 points for one of my projects! 
But yes, I support!