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True. But that tweak would also have the effect of reducing the votes to other fics that aren't the winning one, because the people who would ordinarily give those points to them rather than the one that's obviously going to win without them would have an incentive not to spread the points. It's also not clear to me that most people want to see fic updates too close together on the same fic, or points-per-round in the round after a fic wins wouldn't be so much lower (often down by half) most of the time.An idea for fine-tuning the voting system: Instead of reverting winner's vote count to zero, it would make more sense to subtract the runner up's vote count from the winner's.
A work that regularly beats it's opponents by large margins, gets disproportionally fewer updates per point gained, than a work that regularly skirts it by a few points.
Reverting to zero gives all the other fics a chance to shine. If people want to see one particular fic, they'll vote it up.An idea for fine-tuning the voting system: Instead of reverting winner's vote count to zero, it would make more sense to subtract the runner up's vote count from the winner's.
E.g if.:
# 1 I, Panacea - 450
# 2 Security! - 430
Then have Panacea start the next round with 20 points.
In the current system, if someone three rounds ago gave a single 5 point vote for I, Panacea, their vote is going to be totally lost, not reflected at all in the frquency of updates. A work that regularly beats it's opponents by large margins, gets disproportionally fewer updates per point gained, than a work that regularly skirts it by a few points.
But that tweak would also have the effect of reducing the votes to other fics that aren't the winning one, because the people who would ordinarily give those points to them rather than the one that's obviously going to win without them would have an incentive not to spread the points.
You're saying it would reduce 'strategical voting' -- in my mind that'd be a benefit, since people would have less reason to be concerned about wasting their votes on a sure-to-win-next-round fic, they could just vote more easily on their true preferences.
Reverting to zero gives all the other fics a chance to shine. If people want to see one particular fic, they'll vote it up.
Yeah, but if a fic receives 50 votes per round, and another receives 10 per round, then people obviously want the former to shine 5 times as frequently as the latter.
Because you're only using two fics and it's seriously screwing the numbers as a result. Try it with previous vote counts or something like that.Um, on second thought:
1st round: A- 10 votes, B - 50 votes (becoming 40)
2nd round: A- 20 votes, B - 90 votes (becoming 70)
3rd round: A - 30 votes, B - 110 votes (becoming 80)
4th round: A - 40 votes, B - 130 votes (becoming 90)
5th round: A - 50 votes, B - 140 votes (becoming 90)
6th round: A - 60 votes, B - 140 votes (becoming 80)
7th round: A - 70 votes, B - 130 votes (becoming 60)
8th round: A - 80 votes, B - 90 votes (becoming 10)
9th round: A - 90 votes (becoming 30), B - 60 votes
10th round: A - 40 votes, B - 110 votes (becoming 70)
I think their point is that with your suggestion fic 'A' gets to shine less than even proportionally. It's when the 50 votes get zeroed, that the 5-to-1 ratio is maintained. Somehow. I'm still a bit confused as to why.