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<blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 7859978" data-attributes="member: 50987">Not completely, but yes...the number of voters is a big contributor but how those votes are applied are also very important.&nbsp; One person has a +1/-2 (net -1) per day, but 2 people can have +2/-4 or +1/-3 per day, if their votes overlap.&nbsp; It's still a net -1 per voter, but the difference is whether two separate options get reduced by 2, or one single option gets reduced by 4.&nbsp;&nbsp; Three voters?&nbsp; Three options reduced by 2 each, a single option reduced by 6, or some combination thereof (and the possibility of overlapping).&nbsp; And the contest ends when a certain number of options are eliminated, not when a certain number of downvotes are made.I'm bad at explaining this stuff.&nbsp; :-/&nbsp; But you can model this stuff in Excel pretty easily; I've found that the contest ends quickest when everyone &quot;focus fires&quot; their upvotes on a single option while downvoting the lowest-scoring option.&nbsp; Which will never happen in practice, but the theory is sound.AAANNNYYYway, back to the contest.&nbsp; Long live the Crow!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CleverNickName, post: 7859978, member: 50987"] Not [I]completely, [/I]but yes...the number of voters is a big contributor but [I]how those votes are applied [/I]are also very important. One person has a +1/-2 (net -1) per day, but 2 people can have +2/-4 or +1/-3 per day, if their votes overlap. It's still a net -1 per voter, but the difference is whether two separate options get reduced by 2, or one single option gets reduced by 4. Three voters? Three options reduced by 2 each, a single option reduced by 6, or some combination thereof (and the possibility of overlapping). And the contest ends when a certain number of options are eliminated, not when a certain number of downvotes are made. I'm bad at explaining this stuff. :-/ But you can model this stuff in Excel pretty easily; I've found that the contest ends quickest when everyone "focus fires" their upvotes on a single option while downvoting the lowest-scoring option. Which will never happen in practice, but the theory is sound. AAANNNYYYway, back to the contest. Long live the Crow! [/QUOTE]

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