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In it he mentions that he kept the site up for only a short amount of time, in part to prevent anyone from writing a bot which could game it. Unfortunately, that has not been the case with Elo Everything, which has a clearly gamed leader board.
Idea 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.
Idea 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.
So is the idea that you use this in a very technical space for, say, ranking jobs in a queue? Or is it intended for an e-commerce site to order by product ratings?
Ruiners 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.
Hitler is currently rank 1, so, that's an interesting application of Godwin's Law
Reminds me of '00s whatsbetter.com!
It's funny how Hitler is winning by a very large margin.