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Re: ELO Everything

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Post by GaggiX »

cheeze wrote: post #36
GaggiX wrote: 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…

Definitely it's for the meme.

(Also the history of Rome has definitely been more impactful than Hitler.)

Re: ELO Everything

#42

Post by mkagenius »

jedberg wrote: post #37
mjamesaustin wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Its at 2031 elo now, while the closest to it is 1500 elo. Lot of catching up to do but I think there is still good chance to catch it before it becomes much harder.

Re: ELO Everything

#43

Post by bee_rider »

craz8 wrote: post #32
bee_rider wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is better if you just imagine that we’re ranking things in order of similarity to ELO (electric light orchestra).

Twitter: -100; Mastodon: zero; Bluesky: 5,000 Yup, this could work

Now I kinda want to hear a heavy metal remake of Mr Blue Sky.

Re: ELO Everything

#44

Post by jedberg »

shp0ngle wrote: post #13
lumb63 wrote: post #7

Neat, 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.

> Maybe the API is just very simple and somebody is just sending upvotes to Hitler infinitely

Yep, it has no authentication. You can just keep posting to the API with Hitler beating everything.

Re: ELO Everything

#45

Post by _Algernon_ »

chrischen wrote: post #6

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.

Considering this thing ranks Adolph Hitler as the best "thing" currently, above other things such as sexual intercourse, the entire Earth, and Oxygen, I don't think I would trust any product recommendation such a system would spit out.

Re: ELO Everything

#46

Post by LeifCarrotson »

mjamesaustin wrote: post #35
montroser wrote: post #14

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. :/

Aaand now he's in first, with over 2000 ELO, far above the Earth, oxygen, or sex, which each have barely 1500.

Re: ELO Everything

#47

Post by alecco »

mkagenius wrote: post #42
jedberg wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Its at 2031 elo now, while the closest to it is 1500 elo. Lot of catching up to do but I think there is still good chance to catch it before it becomes much harder.

I could see this as real-life version of The Office episode where they stop working to decide if Hilary Swank is hot or not. Busy Monday, I guess.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Family_Paper

Re: ELO Everything

#48

Post by GloriousKoji »

jmmcd wrote: post #33
lbotos wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Something must have broke/exploited. Hitler is still #1 with over 2000 matches but Baseball is in #2 with over 100M matches. The next 20 are 1000-2000 matches.

Re: ELO Everything

#50

Post by lwansbrough »

mjamesaustin wrote: post #35
montroser wrote: post #14

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. :/

I don't think higher rating is an endorsement. The question is only: which do you rank higher? I think Adolf Hitler ranks quite highly on notoriety, especially if the comparison is inherently notorious (ie. Hitler vs. Jeffrey Epstein.) So I'm not sure Hitler ranking highly is in bad faith.
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