From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Wed Nov 16 12:26:50 2005 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:26:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EcTrb-0005xt-Tg for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:26:40 -0800 Received: from miranda.org ([65.124.18.202]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EcTra-0005xl-QQ for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:26:39 -0800 Received: (qmail 10705 invoked by uid 534); 16 Nov 2005 13:26:37 -0700 From: jkominek@miranda.org Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:26:37 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: A ranking system for Lojban speaking proficiency? Message-ID: <20051116202637.GC20158@miranda.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55b258c20511161151q31ec15ci56dcd2ed1ff15987@mail.gmail.com> Accept-Language: jbo, en User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Spam-Score: -2.1 (--) X-archive-position: 10785 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list > This sounds cool. But what about multilateral conversations? They can be treated a one conversation for every unique pair of participants. > And should spectators be allowed to vote? (Maybe you can let them > vote and then somehow weight the results based on what percentage of > people voted which way, so you can have win, kinda-win, draw, > kinda-loss, loss.) The underlying math I implemented would be ok with that, but I think it would probably produce better results to simply have the results of more conversations recoded. (The spectators should go have their own conversations. :) -- Jay Kominek To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.