[Icehouse] CRP Ranking: Can It Skip Ranks?

[Andrew Plotkin]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, David Artman wrote:

> Suppose someone sends me a ranking with:
> 1) AAA
> 2) BBB
> 8) CCC (i.e. wanting to assert that CCC was so bad that all other games
> are above it, but no opinion on those other games)

This says the person has opinions about three games, and CCC is the worst 
of those three. Games DDD-HHH might have any quality at all -- better than 
AAA, worse than CCC, in between -- the voter has no idea.

> Will that work alone, or would I have to add in this "padding" to make
> that "ranked 8th" or "absolute worst" status for CCC?
> 1) AAA
> 2) BBB
> 3) DDD, EEE, FFF, GGG, HHH
> 8) CCC

This says the person has opinions about eight games, and CCC is the worst 
of those eight.

I don't know which these two possibilites the voter meant. The system 
implicitly assumes that if the voter never even looked at games DDD-HHH, 
then he's in the former case. (He has no idea about them.)

If it were me, I'd tell the voter to follow the instructions, provide a 
list, and stop trying to wedge in words like "absolute worst". It only 
confuses matters.

--Z

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