What's the purpose of this pool?
Who are the curators?
How is it meaningfully different from a favorites pool?
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What's the purpose of this pool?
Who are the curators?
How is it meaningfully different from a favorites pool?
Speaking of pool #12514...
The following error is raised when trying to view that pool's history:
ActiveRecord::RecordNotFound exception raised Couldn't find User with 'id'= app/models/pool_archive.rb:92:in `updater' app/views/pool_versions/index.html.erb:29:in `block in _app_views_pool_versions_index_html_erb___1309753181124430378_70249471193220' app/views/pool_versions/index.html.erb:23:in `_app_views_pool_versions_index_html_erb___1309753181124430378_70249471193220' app/controllers/pool_versions_controller.rb:11:in `index'
However, the error only occurs with HTML, as the JSON and XML render just fine, although you can see what it's talking about with the updater_id being null in the second entry (id #440908).
Anyways, to answer @feline_lump 's question, Reportbooru takes the last 8000 posts and selects posts that were voted up by Super Voters until it reaches a count of 500, and then it updates the pool.
feline_lump said:
I see, thanks for the explanation.
IMHO the concept would work better in a promotional Twitter feed or something. Right now the pool's contents overlap a lot with the Popular page, which rather limits its usefulness on-site.
I honestly don't see the usefulness of this, as super voters generally upvote/favorite practically everything.
Hillside_Moose said:
I don't even know who's a super voter anymore. Apparently all admins supposedly are, but my votes are only +1 now.
These users. It seems like the list was refreshed recently.
Hillside_Moose said:
I don't even know who's a super voter anymore. Apparently all admins supposedly are, but my votes are only +1 now.
feline_lump said:
These users. It seems like the list was refreshed recently.
Yeah... only user numero uno (i.e. albert) is a permanent member of the Super Voter class...
The rest of us in the Proletariat have to muck around with our measly +1 voting power...
feline_lump said:
IMHO the concept would work better in a promotional Twitter feed or something. Right now the pool's contents overlap a lot with the Popular page, which rather limits its usefulness on-site.
I agree with this. This seems more like something that should have it's own section along side the "hot" and "popular" pages on the posts tab rather than be a pool.
tapnek said:
albert himself did create this website and has control of the servers. He has every right to do so and could have made his fellow admins Super Voters but just chose not to.
He did make other admins into super-voters before. It just got reverted at some point.
Also, description of that pool is hilarious. Especially when you consider that super-voters are picked randomly. Then again, the concept of super-voters was flawed from the very beginning, so I shouldn't be too surprised.
For those who don't remember how this thing started, see discussion in topic #9127 starting from forum #112300. And particularly forum #112327.
CodeKyuubi said:
I honestly don't see the usefulness of this, as super voters generally upvote/favorite practically everything.
This is why I always questioned what the point of Super Voters was. Since many of the people chosen for Super Voter (but not all of them) will upvote/favorite a very large number of posts, of course they're going to end up favoriting whatever albert favorites. It's less likely they're being chosen for Super Voters as a matter of similar tastes to albert's, and more that in the vast number of things they favorite just happens to include some things albert favorited.
I agree, Super voters vote everything. We're not really a reliable source.
Honestly, i didn't know super voters were chosen by albert, thought it was designated by number of posts voted on.
... since that's what i do, almost every day, go through like 500+ danbooru posts and vote on about 25-50% of them.
As it was said earlier, this is probably more of a test for something else.
keonas said:
Honestly, i didn't know super voters were chosen by albert, thought it was designated by number of posts voted on.
Supervoters are automatically reselected once a few days based on how similar their upvotes/favorites to a certain "base user", in our case Albert. I'm not sure how well the selection algorithm handles people who upvote everything, can't tell without digging through source code and formulas.
Type-kun said:
I'm not sure how well the selection algorithm handles people who upvote everything, can't tell without digging through source code and formulas.
Basically, how the scoring mechanism works is...
So there is a benefit to voting up everything via #1, but there's almost as much a penalty via #2.
Just for reference though, the report automatically excludes those that haven't voted up at least 100 times in the last 3 months.
feline_lump said:
I see, thanks for the explanation.
IMHO the concept would work better in a promotional Twitter feed or something. Right now the pool's contents overlap a lot with the Popular page, which rather limits its usefulness on-site.
Well, I've no idea what the Popular page is for if that helps.
I don't select favourites on what other people like.