Hitler #1 of course, because the Internet.
ELO Everything
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#12Idea would be great for product recommendations, as long as the spam issue can be solved. Most people can make a reliable comparison between two products but maybe not among many.
> as long as the spam issue can be solved
At the time of writing, Adolf Hitler is #1 on the leaderboard with Elo 1754.
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#13Neat, but in the time I spent playing, Hitler surpassed curiosity and bread, to hit number one.
He also has the highest number of matches, so somebody is clearly messing up with this.
Maybe the API is just very simple and somebody is just sending upvotes to Hitler infinitely.
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#14Ruiners of all good things incoming...
It's cool, but dealing with bad-faith participants is what is really difficult about these types of exercises. It works great until the hurt people find it, and then the hurt people hurt people -- perpetuating their sadness unto others by upvoting the bad things.
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#15Reminds me of '00s whatsbetter.com!
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#16While the idea is good, the API is gameable, as the POST request is just whoever you vote for vs who are you not, instead of some session ID.
Predictably, someone is gaming it and spamming Adolf Hitler.
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#17I think you'd get a lot of cycles in this, so the rating won't be very stable.
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#18Great Concept, would like to see this applied to many sub-categories.
Someone should do it just for people, they could call it Facemash or something
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#19Elo isn't an acronym/initialism.
It is better if you just imagine that we’re ranking things in order of similarity to ELO (electric light orchestra).
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#20Neat, but in the time I spent playing, Hitler surpassed curiosity and bread, to hit number one.
He also has the highest number of matches, so somebody is clearly messing up with this. Maybe the API is just very simple and somebody is just sending upvotes to Hitler infinitely.
Now a good soul just needs to do the opposite.