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.
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#22Idea 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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#23Idea 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.
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#24So 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?
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#26Ruiners 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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#27Hitler is currently rank 1, so, that's an interesting application of Godwin's Law
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#28Reminds me of '00s whatsbetter.com!
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#30It's funny how Hitler is winning by a very large margin.