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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 13:20:53 -0000
> From: "sulriel" <Sulriel@htcomp.net>
> Subject: re: points
>
>
> If I remember, someone mentioned the potential of ties as a reason not
> to lower the point spread to 1-5, but if I remember, that shouldn't be
> an issue, because the system automatically ranks the stories by
> points, then those with the same number of points by (?) number of
> reviews and those with the same number of reviews by character count.
>

That's correct. Stories were ranked by three factors:

1. Number of points received.
2. Number of people who voted for them. (Only considered if #1 resulted
in a tie.)
3. The sum of the number of characters in all of those reviews. (Only
considered if both #1 and #2 resulted in a tie.)

Check out http://www.freewebs.com/aure/faq5voting.htm#61366601 if you'd
like more info on this.

> I think it'd be highly unlikely to have ties once those steps had been
> taken.
>
> it would also give the potential to reward those reviews that were
> longer than the point cap on character count.
>

I agree -- we didn't have a tie this year and I don't think we had one
last year. And if two stories are that close, I really don't have a
huge problem giving both the award.

Marta

Sorry, I haven't been around for awhile. Had a guest at my house and busy
days at work. Not a lot of time now, but I'll try to get to some of this.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Marta Layton
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 2:09 PM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [MEFAwards] re: points (sulriel)
>
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 13:20:53 -0000
> > From: "sulriel" <Sulriel@htcomp.net>
> > Subject: re: points
> >
> >
> > If I remember, someone mentioned the potential of ties as a
> reason not

> That's correct. Stories were ranked by three factors:
>
> 1. Number of points received.
> 2. Number of people who voted for them. (Only considered if
> #1 resulted in a tie.) 3. The sum of the number of characters
> in all of those reviews. (Only considered if both #1 and #2
> resulted in a tie.)
>
> Check out
> http://www.freewebs.com/aure/faq5voting.htm#61366601 if you'd
> like more info on this.
>
> > I think it'd be highly unlikely to have ties once those
> steps had been
> > taken.
> >
> > it would also give the potential to reward those reviews that were
> > longer than the point cap on character count.
> >
>
> I agree -- we didn't have a tie this year and I don't think
> we had one last year. And if two stories are that close, I
> really don't have a huge problem giving both the award.

I think I remember some that came down to character count in 2004. One of
them was very close. 1 character or something like that. But in the end, no
ties. I think.

Just to weigh in here in case I don't get it elsewhere, I too am in favor of
keeping the 10-point spread, however we spread it. I think flattening it to
5 is too flat and will also lead toa lot of ties that need breaking as there
will be an overload of 5-pointrers where there used to be a variety of
5-10-pointers.

--Ainaechoiriel
MEFA Admin and Founder

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