Re: Next years Origins

From: lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)

Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 02:11:15 +0000

In article <3b4d0425$0$42876$272ea4a1@news.execpc.com>,
Hugh Bayer  <hughb@vbe.com> wrote:

>I think we could come much closer to reflecting the judgement of the
>PB(whatever) community by emulating the currently comatose Paper Mayhem's rating
>system. In it people submitted ratings of 1 to 10 for games, so a mediocre game
>with a huge player base ended up with a mediocre rating. Let the PBM category of
>Origins be heavily weighted by these ratings, and not the votes of GAMA members
>that are most likely either extremely biased (not hard to guess how I voted) or
>ignorant of the games in question.

While that may be better than the Origins system, as a publisher of
PBM info, I won't push any system that's not a "good" one. And as you
point out, what you propose can be abused. In addition, it doesn't
address the problem of a lack of common experience among players.
Heck, most players don't even like a common type of game or style of
GMing.

A better system would be to link voting to categories like the ones in
the PBM List. If you like "free space wargames", then you don't care
about the best overall PBM game, you want to know about the best "free
space wargames", and the people who vote for such games probably have
played a couple of "free space wargames", so there's a community there.

But, there's no easy way for an online site to avoid ballot stuffing.
A print magazine can kind of address the issue, but not an online site.

>P.S. If the person/company currently owning Paper Mayhem sees this please
>contact me. Thanks.

His widowm has refunded all the subscriber's money. You might be able to
purchase the mailing list from her.

References

Next years Origins
jasonm@spamkiller.mindshiftdesign.com (Jason Paul McCartan)
Wed, 11 Jul 2001 06:26:03 +0000
Re: Next years Origins
Hugh Bayer <hughb@vbe.com>
Thu, 12 Jul 2001 01:47:45 +0000

Referenced By

Next years Origins
jasonm@spamkiller.mindshiftdesign.com (Jason Paul McCartan)
Wed, 11 Jul 2001 06:26:03 +0000
Re: Next years Origins
Hugh Bayer <hughb@vbe.com>
Thu, 12 Jul 2001 01:47:45 +0000