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The first-ever macosxhints 'Best Hints' contest
Well, the contest is for best, not most popular. The rules seem pretty fair to me, and the judges are presumably qualified to make the call on what is a good hint. Anyway, view count probably isn't really an accurate measure here: Many of the hints are brief enough to be read just by loading the index page without viewing the individual hint page.
The first-ever macosxhints 'Best Hints' contest
...and clicking to view means the reader wants more information because they are interested in it (or wants to post a comment, etc). Doesn't that make a hint more important?
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"Views" is completeley fair until someone starts getting all his/her friends to load the page.
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Well that's true, all systems get abused eventually. Cops, judges, juries, and there are link farms. But thats democracy. And you can't just assume fraud happening. You might offend someone who is completely honest...
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The hints will be completely time-independent, other than month of publication. That is, the judges won't necessarily know if a hint has been published on the 1st or the 31st, nor will they know how many views it received.
Your Mac is vulnerable to 9,999 viruses...
..and clicking to view means the reader wants more information because they are interested in it (or wants to post a comment, etc). Doesn't that make a hint more important?Not really. Someone could use news media tactics to get more views: "Your Mac is vulnerable to 9,999 viruses that will destroy your computer. View now to see how to stop them...." |
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