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From: dat@thinkage.on.ca (David Adrien Tanguay)
Subject: Re: Idea for Future I-F Competitions
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erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin) writes:
>All the solutions seem to involve the solution: Do not allow anyone to 
>vote for more than N entries, for N much less than the number of entries.
>
>Does anyone else think this is dumb?

Fair enough. The system I described allows any number of evaluations per
voter. The provided form was just to ensure an unbiased coverage of all
games, to avoid a situation where few or no people vote for a game because,
e.g., it has an unappealing title. The form could be ammended to include all
games, simply asking the voter to evaluate the given games first. If the
voter is unable to evaluate some because of system inability, there's no
real problem.

>I've rated eight games in three days [...] I
>certainly expect to have rated all the TADS and Inform games by the time 
>voting ends. Next year there may be more games, but I may have more time.

Others may not have so much time, or stamina! If the total number of games
stays fairly low (say 1 per day during the voting period) and the rewards
are insignificant, then all these lot etc. discussions are moot. Another
post mentioned that last year's winners (well, the top 3 in each category)
received a "nice" payment from Activision -- a more accurate voting system
should be considered if this ever threatens to become a frequent occurrence.
As for the numbers, I doubt we'll ss a great increase in the near future, so
lots would be considered polite requests only, not hard voting requirements.
-- 
David Tanguay       dat@Thinkage.on.ca       http://www.thinkage.on.ca/~dat/
Thinkage, Ltd.           Kitchener, Ontario, Canada          [43.24N 80.29W]
