Based on the pattern of voting I’ve noticed over the past few hours, I suspect one or more people are engaged in aggressive downvoting of others. The natural people to do this would be those who want to rise to the top of the leaderboard. Since all votes are anonymous there’s no good way to figure out who might be doing that.
The obvious thing to do would be to coordinate against them, but if we can’t identify them then we can’t do that. Seems like a possible failure of the voting system created by attaching more than internet points to them. Luckily this is all just for fun! :-)
Well, on the leaderbord (that I see), aphyer is at the top with $557, and when you click on the user and look at the votes, he almost only received downvotes. John Wentworth also received a lot of downvotes. Thus my hypothesis that a downvote is somehow worth something like $5 or so. If that is so, your call might have backfired. xD (Though it could also be a hack or so.)
What’s up with the leaderboard? Did you make a downvote worth 5$ or so, just for fun? Or what?
Based on the pattern of voting I’ve noticed over the past few hours, I suspect one or more people are engaged in aggressive downvoting of others. The natural people to do this would be those who want to rise to the top of the leaderboard. Since all votes are anonymous there’s no good way to figure out who might be doing that.
The obvious thing to do would be to coordinate against them, but if we can’t identify them then we can’t do that. Seems like a possible failure of the voting system created by attaching more than internet points to them. Luckily this is all just for fun! :-)
I sent out a call for people to help downvote blatant exploitation, while upvoting good-faith engagement.
Well, on the leaderbord (that I see), aphyer is at the top with $557, and when you click on the user and look at the votes, he almost only received downvotes. John Wentworth also received a lot of downvotes. Thus my hypothesis that a downvote is somehow worth something like $5 or so. If that is so, your call might have backfired. xD
(Though it could also be a hack or so.)
It looks like they were probably upvoting each other’s shared drafts.
Ah makes sense