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Ok tell me how much i'm dreaming.

Every member is allowed to rate what they think is the top 25 maps of all time (from the selection in the downloads database) And you could have code that figures the Top 100 by using everyones ratings as votes.

I think it would be really supper dupper cool

The problem is getting them motivated to vote.

Yeah but the thing is if just a few vote then it yeilds results. Then more people would be modivated to vote to change the results closer to there likings.

They will vote, trust me, people on SEN have nothing better to do and they'll do anything if it seems like they are doing a tiny little bit of work towards the site. If they vote they will also have a Top 100 Maps section which would make it easier for them to pick the best maps. It's a Win/Win situation.

I say go for it.

The same system is in use at animiemusicvideos.org Except they have load more to pick from and alot more members.

The sistem could be done in the following way:

Create 2 new sections in DLDB:

Top 100 Maps
Your Top 25 Maps

Your Top 25 Maps
This will be like your "Favorites" in the DLDB. It will use a sistem similar to when you are making a poll.
You will have 25 slots to fill up and each slot will be 1 rank.

Top 100 Maps
Using the Your Top 25 Maps from each different member we will determine The Top 100 maps.
We will be using a point system to determine the ranks. The map with the most points will be the Top Rank so on... so on...

Points will be determined in the following way:
In Your Top 25 Maps Rank#1 will be 26 points and Rank#25 will be one point. You get the ideas how all the othe ranks will be like.

Then You just add up all the points form all the members to determine the Ranks of the Top 100 Maps.

People dont vote enough on the maps we have anyway. Theres only about 5 votes, if any, for every map in the downloads database.

And I ask what does the current voting system do?

Thats mainly because the current voting system sucks. Whats the worst that could happen? I would come up with a small list of the best maps ever made and no one would argue me then.

Well that wouldn't happen cause other people would be like "No Chess is not the best map ever" So they would rate something else the best. Then you make a little Popularity thing to make it stand out more.

Like when you enter the downloads section display the Top 10 Maps Of All Time at the top then have options to View all 100 or Cast your Vote.

Would you place the URL of the map download in the slot? or would it be more complex codeing / more user friendly.

I still plan on redoing the dldb, it's just been pushed way down to the bottom of the pile at the moment because the one we have is pretty damn good in comparsion to all the other ty mods out there.

I'll consider it when working on it. It's a pretty good idea. It'll probably replace the "community rating" and "favorites list" completely then. Instead of top 100, maybe just a complete ranking system.

It'll be somewhat skewed because authors would put their maps as #1 and such... or should that just be not allowable? If you're the author (or submitter ?) you can't rank your own maps? But if this would replace the favorites list...
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I can see not allowing you to vote for maps that you are the author of but submitter is something else. If your submitting someone elses map its because you think its great and needs reconizing.

I wouldn't place maps with less than 10-20 votes in that top 100-maps thing, because with less than 10-20 votes it wouldnt be objective.

but see... the author input isn't really definable(lack of better word) for any scripts. I mean, like the store, you need to have a member name to use it, the dldb however, you can shove anything in as the author, one character difference would make them be able to vote for their own map.

Perhaps some other type of dldb option that would link the author of a map to your member id instead of just a random name, that way, when you change your name or etc, it'll automatically still have you as the author.

In that case i would just allow it but discurage it. What is one Bias vote worth when there are tons of votes. They don't dissallow the president to vote for himself lol.
Besides is not like it will be accurate when it first starts out. But as time goes on and you get more and more peoples input it will be more worth while.

Didn't you guys read my system?

It fixes the 1 10/10 vote thing and gives higher priority to maps which have been rated a lot of times than the ones rated really high but only a few times.

I did, how else would you do it?

rating = (votes / numvotes) + (10 * numvotes / maxnumvotes) / 2

where votes is the plus of all the ratings, numvotes is the number of times that people voted and maxnumvotes is the number of times that people votes the map with most votes.

What do you think?

I really don't see how your system would work.
It's based way too much on getting votes and not getting High rating vote.

I think he was just pointing out another way of doing it.

Just change 'votes' per 'ratings'.
That way the rating and the number of ratings will count, to avoid that maps with only one '10' rate that get on top of the rest.

Darn spanish programers, they always end up making me look dumb.

lol jk

LOL

Btw, the formula was wrong anyway, I forgot some brackets

There we go Clokr_, that looks much better than the other one and I think it's better than mine.

I still say an algorithm would be much betetr but I don't know if its too complex for .php to handle.

What I wrote is an algorithm -.-"

An algorithm is a group of steps that you have to do to solve a problem. Its size is not important.

Then the word I was looking for would be a logarithim.