Submitted 1 week ago by wjs018@ani.social to anime@ani.social
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I hope everybody is having a great end of the year! I just wanted to remind everybody that voting is closing at ~05:00 UTC on December 30th for the Anime Awards. In case you missed it, there are also other mediums you can vote for:
Finally, a shout out to @NineSwords@ani.social for the graphic.
Whoa this is cool to see, the hero art is sick! So many animes to add to my list to watch now lol, thank you for doing this. 🙏
If I don’t know a show and just don’t select anything, that’s hopefully is not the same as giving it a 0 score, right?
It does. There was a bit of a discussion about this in the voting announcement thread here. Basically, I wanted to do ranked choice voting, which isn’t as punishing to shows that don’t get a vote, but that type of question didn’t work in some browsers, so we fell back to the STAR voting. It should still result in more accurate results than a single, non-transferable vote though. It’s something I want to fix for the next time we do this (if we do).
If you implemented the voting algorithm (STAR in this case) in the code instead of just using a library, consider using this more generalized variant of STAR; not sure if there is a name for it:
Instead of scoring candidates from 0 to 5, allow voters to give scores between ‘m’ and ‘n’, where ‘m’ and ‘n’ are integers. If the voter choose not to give a score to a candidate, assign a default score of ‘k’ where ‘k’ is an integer and ‘m <= k <= n’
For example,
m = -2 k = 0 n = 3
What I liked about STAR - that I’m unsure if ranked-choice voting methods can achieve - is how expressive a voter can be.
For example, if I like anime A way more than anime B and hence want to give A a much higher chance of winning, I can express it in my scores (e.g. by giving A a score of 3 and B a score of 0)
Another case is if I absolute detest an anime C, I would be able to give it a score of -2.
To conclude, I don’t think other commenters’ complaints are about STAR itself, just its parameters of m, n and k.
If these parameters can be properly tuned such that unvoted candidates get a middle score instead of the lowest score, that should solve this problem where they appear to be voted against.
P.S. I’m still of the opinion that these awards are just another form of popularity contest, so if a candidate doesn’t get voted for because it was barely watched by majority of the voters, that means most voters don’t really want it to win anyway.
Hmmm…
Most of my picks are missing… Shame
Well I watched a ton of anime but only two of the series mentioned in that voting, so I guess we’ll see if my 5s on one show and 0s on everything else throw a wrench in the works 🤷 (which to be clear, is not my intention)
Haha, no worries. It’s just meant to be a silly, fun thing. There are absolutely zero stakes for this to have anything mess it up.
Disappointed that the end sequence of Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Season 3 wasn’t one of the options 🤣
Kekkon Surutte, Hontō desu ka (365 Days to the Wedding) got royally snubbed for best romance.
I have to say, I’d rather not have a banner at all if it’s going to be AI-generated
Feel free to commission art for next year.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 week ago
Dang, there’s a lot I haven’t watched…