As I announced back in 2012, changes are coming to the site\u2019s voting system. Since work on the updates has progressed enough to make things clear, I guess it\u2019s time to update you all on the coming changes.<\/p>\n
1 – The TPA system is going away. The system never lived up to its potential. The members that could use it effectively and correctly are very few and those who used it tended to ruin the results. So it became a waste of resources that delivered very little value for everyone. The existing votes will be converted to normal votes (what used to be basic).<\/p>\n
2 – The updated system now keeps individual votes and that means new useful stuff and less drawbacks.<\/p>\n
3 – Due to the way the updated system works, there will be no display of the old bScore. Only the weighed score (the bScore was already hidden from new authors).<\/p>\n
So what useful stuff will result from #2? Well, now we can calculate a story\u2019s score while dropping the top 5% and the bottom 5% of votes; thus eliminating outliers and minimizing the effects of vindictive\/manipulative\/destructive votes. This top and bottom drop will kick in once the story reaches 20 votes. So, I don’t want to hear anything anymore about votes of ‘1’. Those are taken care of with this change.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been keeping individual basic votes since 2009, so those, with the individual votes from the TPA, will make up the source for the scores in the updated system (millions of votes already). I\u2019ll be dropping the old vote results completely. Theoretically, all the scores displayed for all the stories on the site will now reflect the same voting conditions. What that means is that the old stories\u2019 scores most likely will change drastically. I haven\u2019t completed enough work to make a comparison between the old scores and the new scores for the top performing classic stories, so I don\u2019t really know what will happen yet.<\/p>\n
The updated system will allow readers to change their votes. So no more \u201cwhere is the voting form\u201d except when authors turn off voting. And readers will be able to update their votes on serials as chapters get posted.<\/p>\n
Update 2013-05-21:<\/strong>\u00a0All the changes have been implemented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Discussion of the upcoming voting and scoring changes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,22,45,46],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storiesonline","tag-sol-voting-system","tag-storiesonline-2","tag-storiesonline-voting-system","tag-voting-system-changes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2p2rG-2a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/storiesonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/storiesonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storiesonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storiesonline.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}