Well spotted :) That is distinctly possible. There is a strange set of votes which are (very probably) all from the same person:
+--------+---------------+ | rating | count(rating) | +--------+---------------+ | 1 | 2523 | | 2 | 2061 | | 3 | 765 | | 4 | 315 | | 5 | 124 | | 6 | 42 | | 7 | 27 | | 8 | 11 | +--------+---------------+ I figure this is either an very keen player or a bot -- but if it is a bot, I don't know what its strategy or purpose is. What would it achieve by spamming the system with low ratings? The IP originates in Yorkshire and these votes occurred over a period of several days, so there's nothing instantly suspicious about them other than their volume. Harry On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 11:26 +0200, Michael Bimmler wrote: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Tom Steinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > We're approaching 10,000 votes, which is nice because a) it's less > > than 24 hours and b) I've intentionally held back from pushing it > > until it has various things that make Harry and the rest of us > > happier. > > > > One thing that concerned me up front was that the data might be not > > very useful. I've asked Harry for a dump of the votes, so we can look > > together: > > Question: Would you mind sending us an updated vote count (of all the > votes, not only for the 3-times-rated pictures)? > > I have the (not so empirically founded) suspicion, that someone is > trying to game the system by submitting as many "1" votes as possible: > The last 15 pictures I rated (some of which showed quite decent > places) had a ridiculously low average. As many of them had only two > votes, I could deduce a lot of "1" ratings, e.g. in pictures where I > submitted a "6" mark and the average after 2 votes was 3.5 > > I wouldn't raise this here, had it not occured for quite some pictures > in a row whereas when I last played the game, the averages seemed much > more sensible to me. Would be interesting to find out whether I am > just paranoid or whether there has indeed been a significant increase > in "1" / "2" ratings. > > Thanks, > Michael > > -- FYI: I no longer use [email protected]. It will still work for the time being but my new address is: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
