Hi gdibble,
the plugin doesn’t just ‘add’ votes, but uses a chess algorithm. It’s a bit tough to explain, but this way it doesn’t matter how many times there will be voted on a single item.
So, following your example; lets start with the 4 items with a rating of 1000.
A: 1000,
B: 1000,
C: 1000,
D: 1000,
A vs C, click A: updated scored (approximately):
A: 1020,
B: 1000,
C 980,
D: 1000,
B vs D, click D:
A: 1020,
B: 980,
C: 980,
D: 1020,
A vs D, click D:
A: 1000,
B: 980,
C: 980,
D: 1020,
Now, the ‘algorythm’ takes into account the likelyhood that one ‘item’ would win: So when you put B (980) to D (1020) you would believe D to become the winner. Because there is a larger differences between the player, they play for a larger ‘stake’ (for illustration purposes i made this 25pts):
B vs D, click B
A: 1000,
B: 1005,
C: 980,
D: 995,
I hope this gives a bit of insight on how the plugin works, but I realize this doesn’t resolve the issue that people aren’t limited to vote on a certain ‘item’.
I guess I can use cookies to resolve this, but people would be able to delete then and cast a vote again. Otherwise we must think of user registration and such….
For now, I’ll think of a clever way to make this happen through cookies.
regards,
André
