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Old 04-18-2006, 05:01 PM   #9
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I'm not even sure what you're trying to measure here, or why percentage of votes per site is the critical variable.  If we send 100 votes here, that's good evidence that we have a playerbase that cares about promoting us here.  It doesn't matter if 3 or 30 other MUDs send 10 votes each.

In a similar fashion, many of the games here don't promote to all three of those.  (And many of us promote to sites you aren't counting.)  The game that happens to care about the same three sites that you care about will score very well, whereas another game would drop in the rankings because they use other promotional methods.  It's misleading, it's not remotely a measure of quality, and it can't provide any information that the three sites don't provide already.

The fact that those three lists have no correlation whatsoever should be screaming for you not to aggregate them.  Apples, oranges, pears.
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