Elo isn't an acronym/initialism.
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ELO Everything
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#62Elo isn't an acronym/initialism.
No need to be coy; it's named after Arpad Elo, the chess player who came up with this general ranking method.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> So I'm not sure Hitler ranking highly is in bad faith.
I think they may be ranking Hitler the artist or Hitler the leader surely. It can't possibly be the more simple explanation of the internet being full of trolls who think anonymous graffiti is funny.
Why is it only on HN that this sort of contortion happens?
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#65Earlier 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
Now he has -700 Elo. Did good faith just win or did the owner of the website intervene?
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#66Ruiners 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.
Naah, it's simple things like these that are fun. Choosing Rice instead of Einstein was the highlight of my day.
The girl with a pearl earring vs kidney stone disease tripped me up for a μs or three.
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#67Unironically, I want this, but for restaurants/stores/etc, essentially a replacement for Google Maps' helpful but deeply flawed one-to-five-star (but actually 4.0-4.9-star) rating system.
You want restaurants to be rated by random people who have never been to them?
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#68So not to be confused with 70s pomp rock band ELO, aka the Electric Light Orchestra!
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#69I got excited about this but then I realized it was about ranking random things instead of self-ranking your own abilities on an ELO scale
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#70Sriracha sauce vs Electric chair?
For several reasons the choice isn't that obvious.