mindspired Voting and Rating systems - some details.

spir3d

Greetings everyone!

I will try to explain [to the best of my knowledge! - these baths are wrinkling my memory, too!] how the voting and rating systems work [together?] on mindspired.com

A few definitions, first of all:

- Voting System: the module that allows to have your input [vote] submitted for a story. mindspired.com employs three options on the votes - from lowest to highest. The lowest vote is valued one mindLick, the second - three mindLicks and the highest vote - five mindLicks. Yummy!

- Rating System: the formula behind the magic rate value for each story. We have implemented a fair and objective formula - that takes into consideration many elements of a story. Yes, chocolate syrup and ice cubes included, of course.

The elements that we look at are: number of reads a story has, number of comments, number of orgasms, number of votes, votes value, 100ml chocolate syrup, average of all votes, average of all reads, average of all comments, 4 - 7 ice cubes [depending on the story length and hotness] and number of spoons of generated orgasm liQuids [male:female - treated as 1:10 ratio]. This is list is not the complete list of elements - it's just a indication of the extent we went to make sure all stories are treated equally and the votes and ratings are not manipulated in any way.

That's also the reason why the formula is not public - so that no groups or interests take advantage of it - and try to balance certain stories' ratings more than others.

We have also removed the author's rights to vote on their own stories as well as the possibility for someone to vote twice - for obvious reasons. Only registered members can vote.

- [Weighted] Rating: the actual magic number that defines the place of a story in [or on?] our TIT.

- TIT [Top Inspired Titles] - our top - soon to be available on the homepage. This top allows everyone to see the most rated stories on mindspired, from all categories.

Currently the rating has been enabled on the stories index - you can see and sort the stories list in ascending or descending mode - for each category.

- mindLicks - this is part of the Rating formula - and a fun element of a story to play with. The TIT will display the rating of a story as well as the number of mindLicks it has accumulated. More mindLicks, more TIT coverage! [finally some sense!]

I hope this covers the rating/voting questions we received.

If you have any other questions - please feel free to ask them - or comment on the above. Thanks!


Cheers,
Spir3d

P.S. Some of the elements mentioned before have been thrown in to give more class to the formula and they are measured precisely using high-definition and sensitive electronics machinery. [no, we do not spy on you while you read the stories on mindspired.. but we can sense the orgasm through the mouse clicks. Normally, after an orgasm, the clicks are more erratic and less precise.. for a few minutes at least].

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