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Re: ELO Everything

#31
post #4

Elo isn't an acronym/initialism.

While we're on the subject, neither is TOR.

Tor is an acronym for "The Onion Router", it just isn't capitalised as such.

[0] https://support.torproject.org/about/why-is-it-called-tor/

[1] https://www.britannica.com/technology/Tor-encryption-network

Re: ELO Everything

#33
post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> as long as the spam issue can be solved At the time of writing, Adolf Hitler is #1 on the leaderboard with Elo 1754.

6 minutes later -- my leaderboard shows oxygen at the top, and hitler is not in the top 100.

5 minutes later, it's Hitler #1 again

And democracy - "I love democracy!" - at #15

Re: ELO Everything

#34
post #26

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.

It's a silly web site that means nothing. If you attribute hurt or sadness to the result on it, that's not the fault of anyone else.

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Re: ELO Everything

#35

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.

Went to the Leaderboard and Hitler is currently in 10th place. So yeah, that happened quickly. :/

Re: ELO Everything

#36
post #25

It's funny how Hitler is winning by a very large margin.

Given that it's just "rank higher" - I think you have 2 reasons for this

1. People that think its funny and choose Hitler

2. People who compare Hitler to something like "Ferrari" or "Rome, Italy" and go "yeah he's had more impact (from my perspective)"

In that same sense, Hitler is arguably one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen. He was just a horrible person who did horrible things.

I am (obviously) not a fan at all of Hitler, Nazism, etc. but it's had a profound impact on our world, regardless of whether it was horrible impact :(

But yeah, it's obvious there is some gaming of the system. Hard to rank Hitler higher than "earth" or "electricity"

Re: ELO Everything

#37

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.

Went to the Leaderboard and Hitler is currently in 10th place. So yeah, that happened quickly. :/

It's moving around a lot, because Hitler was in first place about 90 seconds before you posted this.

Re: ELO Everything

#38

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.

Went to the Leaderboard and Hitler is currently in 10th place. So yeah, that happened quickly. :/

Currently in first now

Re: ELO Everything

#39

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.

within 15min of you posting this, hitler has become the #1 ranked thing on the leaderboard
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