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Re: BEA's Year-End List

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 22:18:27 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/31/2015 03:18

Last reminder and 24-hour notice.

Re: BEA's Year-End List

benpaco — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 21:12:33 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 01/29/2015 02:12

sp4cetiger wrote:

Yes. In fact, people should feel free to chime in with stat requests. After I've presented the main list, I'll post a thread with a more detailed breakdown.

Would love to see average number of points per ballot - ie if everyone had Piñata at 10 points, but literally EVERYONE had it, it could well come in first. While that won't happen, some albums could just receive a lot of low point scores from a lot of users, making them seem more beloved than they really are

Re: BEA's Year-End List

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:34:26 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/28/2015 23:34

Kool Keith Sweat wrote:

Would it be possible for your script to tally how many times each album got the highest possible amount of positive points (30) in a ballot and how many times each album got the highest amount of negative points (-30) in a ballot? Kind of like how many #1 votes an album got in Let's Rank. Would just be interesting to see.

Yes. In fact, people should feel free to chime in with stat requests. After I've presented the main list, I'll post a thread with a more detailed breakdown.

Re: BEA's Year-End List

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 18:27:52 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/28/2015 23:27

Would it be possible for your script to tally how many times each album got the highest possible amount of positive points (30) in a ballot and how many times each album got the highest amount of negative points (-30) in a ballot? Kind of like how many #1 votes an album got in Let's Rank. Would just be interesting to see.

Re: BEA's Year-End List

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 13:40:29 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/28/2015 18:40

Finish those lists up and send me a PM. You have 3 more days!

Re: BEA's Year-End List

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 11:12:38 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/21/2015 16:12

Bump, just a reminder. You have about a week and a half.

Re: BEA's Year-End List

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Jan 2015 17:38:43 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/11/2015 22:38

Keep those votes coming, the top 10 is still very fluid.

Re: BEA's Year-End List

Anonymous — Mon, 5 Jan 2015 11:19:56 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/05/2015 16:19

eyezayzay wrote:

Yo, after making my "image" vote for fun I thought about maybe programming something that could tally the votes for us. At first I just wanted to make it easy for people to re-create my photo.

You just need a database of the album covers, a spot for the user to input their point totals (while keeping track of their remaining points), and then a place to tally up the votes.

I'm kinda just rambling, but I'm thinking we could possibly get a group together to come up with some tools that could make our ranking/rating/voting process a lot easier. :)

Sure, I'm open to collaboration on something like this.

At the moment, I'm just planning to write a quick Perl script to parse the private messages, extracting the album name, artist, and points. The reason I'm encouraging the use of "Insert BEA link" is that it makes use of a database that already exists -- specifically, BEA's. This way I don't have to worry about misspelling, article omission (e.g., leaving out "the" in album titles), etc.

If we were going to make a web tool for the voting process, it would probably have to be incoporated into BEA itself, since making a separate album database would be a massive undertaking.

Re: BEA's Year-End List

eyezayzay — Mon, 5 Jan 2015 10:57:46 GMT

Author: eyezayzay

Posted: 01/05/2015 15:57

sp4cetiger wrote:

Oh, one more thing about the voting. Please, if you can, keep to the format I specified in my original post. The reason the format is important is that I'm planning to automate the vote counting using a script and the fewer ballots I have to convert manually, the more time I'm saved.

Thanks!

Re: BEA's Year-End List

Anonymous — Mon, 5 Jan 2015 09:40:58 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/05/2015 14:40

Oh, one more thing about the voting. Please, if you can, keep to the format I specified in my original post. The reason the format is important is that I'm planning to automate the vote counting using a script and the fewer ballots I have to convert manually, the more time I'm saved.

Thanks!

Re: BEA's Year-End List

Anonymous — Mon, 5 Jan 2015 09:15:30 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/05/2015 14:15

Revolution909 wrote:

Sorry, I feel bad now :-(

It's alright, I've received many more votes than were posted here, let's just keep the discussion in the abstract from here on out.

Anyway, concerning the negative points:

- The main reason I allowed for down-voting was because I feel that dislikes are just as important for representing a community's tastes as likes.
- Yes, many popular records will be downvoted into oblivion, so don't be surprised if albums like Lost in the Dream, Benji or Black Messiah miss the list entirely. This is kind of the point. Besides, it's not like they need additional promotion.
- I realize that losing these records may break some hearts, but if it's any consolation, I'll do an alternate tally of the votes without accounting for the negatives. If you like a popular record, don't be shy about including it on your list.

Re: BEA's Year-End List

Revolution909 — Mon, 5 Jan 2015 00:59:03 GMT

Author: Revolution909

Posted: 01/05/2015 05:59

sp4cetiger wrote:

Come on, guys, there's a reason I wanted these sent by private message. Let's keep the results a surprise, if we can.

Sorry, I feel bad now 🙁

Re: BEA's Year-End List

Anonymous — Sun, 4 Jan 2015 21:37:08 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/05/2015 02:37

Gowienczyk wrote:

I followed the rules!

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Re: BEA's Year-End List

mickilennial — Sun, 4 Jan 2015 20:55:10 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 01/05/2015 01:55

I followed the rules!

Re: BEA's Year-End List

Anonymous — Sun, 4 Jan 2015 20:47:06 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/05/2015 01:47

Come on, guys, there's a reason I wanted these sent by private message. Let's keep the results a surprise, if we can.

Re: BEA's Year-End List

eyezayzay — Sun, 4 Jan 2015 20:40:02 GMT

Author: eyezayzay

Posted: 01/05/2015 01:40

Skinny wrote:

I think I can safely say that satie and Norman's respective dislike of/disinterest in Black Messiah has absolutely zero to do with their political or social inclinations.

Kidding, mate.

Re: BEA's Year-End List

Muslim-Bigfoot — Sun, 4 Jan 2015 17:10:01 GMT

Author: Muslim-Bigfoot

Posted: 01/04/2015 22:10