zodiac14 Dec 2005

Eliminate anonymous votes somehow. No, I can't think of a way of doing it without chaos ensuing. Maybe an amnesty for all existing anonymous votes, just no more from here out. Of course, it would be hard to replace poems whose scores were already inflated, but it would happen eventually. The current Top 20, by way of example, is mostly legitimate - unlike most of the Top 20s since I've been here. The sad truth, though, is that anonymous votes are only legitimate, like, 5% of the time. Certainly it wouldn't be worth keeping the current anonymous voting system just to allow those genuine casual site visitors to vote, when a good portion of them might just go through the trouble of creating accounts to vote instead.

By the way, cool new vote readout on poem details!

The really best way to improve the Top 20 is to solicit totally subjective Top 20 lists from regular users and post them as "User Recommendations" or something such. That would fulfill all the purposes of the current top 20 except 'Winning Poemranker'.