Originally posted by DarkCloud
Everyone in the top 20 would have gotten in eventually regardless of merit.
Everyone in the top 20 would have gotten in eventually regardless of merit.
and what I feel sad and worried about is that when the year turns over- the Civ III players may acquire THREE votes per turn- I'm still working out the vote point allocation, but if they receive three, then basically only Civ III players will be elected because of the sizable contingent.
And thus, neither myself, nor Wombat will ever make it into the hall
And thus, neither myself, nor Wombat will ever make it into the hall
There's a structural problem with the HoF as it stands and that problem has existed ever since its inception: it's not balanced. At first, only OTers could make it in because you only held it in the OT, now only people from big communities can make it in because they accumulate the most votes (e.g. a popular CtP2 poster like Hexagonian or WesW will accumulate at most 20 points per round and a popular SMACer maybe 10-15 points, while a popular OTer or Civ3er currently accumulates 30-40 points per round -- no amount of resetting will ever allow more than a handful of people who don't post in the OT or Civ3 forums to get inducted).
The solution, as I've said in the past, would be to have HoF nominations per category. Have one for Civ3, one for Civ2, one for CtP, one for OT, etc. And then a general one for communities too small/young to warrant their own category. You'll probably also want to keep track of people who get votes in multiple categories there, so people who get a few points here and a few points there still have a shot at being inducted...
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