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The first-ever macosxhints 'Best Hints' contest
Authored by: stevebr on Jul 17, '06 09:35:47AM

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.



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The first-ever macosxhints 'Best Hints' contest
Authored by: giulio on Jul 17, '06 09:53:35AM

...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?
I think same goes with the amount of comments a hint gets. It's creating buzz because more people think it's important.
Human judgement is biased and objective. A person may not care about a game related hint, and so not even know how to test and rate the hint. But us members as a whole can - by the rating stars, the amount of views, and the amount of comments.
Take google's pagerank for example. There's no panel of judges rating sites... it's all numbers. Many can argue PageRank is flawed or flaky, but still it's premise is fair.

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Click Fraud
Authored by: luomat on Jul 17, '06 11:52:10AM

"Views" is completeley fair until someone starts getting all his/her friends to load the page.

You've heard of "click fraud" right?

I'll take the subjective, biased opinions of a group of people who routinely work with this stuff (dare we say "experts") over some "Let's see how we can work the system".



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Click Fraud
Authored by: giulio on Jul 17, '06 01:06:23PM

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...
I'm not saying to only count the page views divided by number of days running. I'm saying just take that into consideration as part of the total score.

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Click Fraud
Authored by: robg on Jul 17, '06 01:22:03PM

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.

They can see all of this, of course, by looking at the story date and view figures when they click the links, but neither views nor day of publication are being used in the evaluation phase.

-rob.



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Your Mac is vulnerable to 9,999 viruses...
Authored by: dan55304 on Jul 18, '06 06:13:33AM
..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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