Sunday, June 29, 2025

Proposal: The Fives Have It

Unpopular, 3-5. Failed by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 30 Jun 2025 11:33:38 UTC

In “Scoring” replace “Calculate the median value among all of the recorded numbers of that Backronym” with “Calculate the mean value among all of the recorded numbers of that Backronym”

right now, scores of 5 and 1 really don’t do much because you need a quorum of people giving you 5 to actually score a five. (ones are slightly easier, as you could get away with 3 1s and a 2 out of 6 votes for example).

I think using mean would make each individual score someone gives more impactful.

Comments

Josh: he/they

29-06-2025 10:57:18 UTC

against Flattening to the centre makes sscoring less swingy.

Raven1207: he/they

29-06-2025 15:09:32 UTC

imperial

I could go either way tbh

Raven1207: he/they

29-06-2025 15:10:44 UTC

Though then again,  against


Only because it is going to lead to fractional points

JonathanDark: Puzzler he/him

29-06-2025 15:30:26 UTC

imperial

DoomedIdeas: he/him

29-06-2025 16:49:31 UTC

against

Bucky:

29-06-2025 18:50:40 UTC

against

Kevan: he/him

29-06-2025 20:12:01 UTC

[Raven] Medians can also be fractional. The existing rule says that any such number is “rounded down to the nearest integer”.

for

Trapdoorspyder: he/him

30-06-2025 05:04:47 UTC

for It’s already not going to pass but I wouldn’t mind this instead of the current median system

Darknight: he/him

30-06-2025 10:30:39 UTC

against