Quote from iamafractal on February 22, 2008, 4:25 pm

Hurricaaane wrote:

I don't know if it's true but one thing people can do is to give their identity to their map. I don't mean adding a huge board with your nickname on but give a design style that belongs to you, I'm sure everyone can have a design style everyone can recognize, I don't say that it's a good point nor a bad point, but you can't forbid that either.

for contest maps the whole point would be that there is no identifying information, except for a random number generated entry in the contest of the map... for example, your map could say, thinkingwithportals july 2008 contest entry number 806...

of course you guys all have unique styles so i don't think any experienced users on the board would have a problem identifying who made what map... but the whole point of anonymity is to keep things fair and not have uncalled for favoritism. i'm saying all this even though i thought it was already clear...

Quote from msleeper on February 22, 2008, 5:02 pm

I can't express how much of a pain in the ass doing things that way would be for me. Once again, I prefer automated processes for contests, voting, so on. I see where you're coming from Fractal but really I don't think it is going to be that big of a deal. I'm not going to hand out Supporter for anyone who votes for me or some shit, and really if I won I'd probably give the prize to whoever came in 2nd.

Quote from iamafractal on February 22, 2008, 6:33 pm

msleeper wrote:

I can't express how much of a pain in the ass doing things that way would be for me. Once again, I prefer automated processes for contests, voting, so on. I see where you're coming from Fractal but really I don't think it is going to be that big of a deal. I'm not going to hand out Supporter for anyone who votes for me or some shit, and really if I won I'd probably give the prize to whoever came in 2nd.

so if somebody posts a map, and you repost it with a number, that would be a pain in the ass? that doesn't seem so hard... or even with names... just you don't say who made each one......till its all over...

Quote from Hurricaaane on February 23, 2008, 8:45 am

I think a special webpage can be coded tomanage the anonymous system, and the voting system to force the person who vote to justify their feedback of all the maps so it proves the person did not only test one or two maps out of 7. So it's an automated form with manual validation and automated count. What you can do is to have more than one validator (so not only msleeper).

It requires a bit of work but that may satisfy some of the discussion here.

Quote from iamafractal on February 23, 2008, 8:58 am

Hurricaaane wrote:

I think a special webpage can be coded tomanage the anonymous system, and the voting system to force the person who vote to justify their feedback of all the maps so it proves the person did not only test one or two maps out of 7. So it's an automated form with manual validation and automated count. What you can do is to have more than one validator (so not only msleeper).

It requires a bit of work but that may satisfy some of the discussion here.

that would be cool. want to write it? open source so there's no strange bias in the results?

Quote from Hurricaaane on February 23, 2008, 10:26 am

I'm not good with PHP forms security, and more, it needs a login system to avoid duplicate votings or be linked with the forum database.

Quote from iamafractal on February 23, 2008, 4:09 pm

i'm sure that somebody around here can write a beautiful script that lets the posters of maps be anonymous until the contest ends...

Quote from Tigger on February 23, 2008, 7:24 pm

I'm actually fine if the moderators want to post maps under their own names. As long as the voting is secure and open to everyone in the community it shouldn't be a problem.

Quote from Megadude on February 23, 2008, 7:40 pm

Tigger wrote:

I'm actually fine if the moderators want to post maps under their own names. As long as the voting is secure and open to everyone in the community it shouldn't be a problem.

Ditto