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Thoughts on resetting the decay of a rant each time it enters a level? #257

Closed kizyahaha closed 9 years ago

kizyahaha commented 9 years ago

Here's the sitch: Two rants, A and B, of equal goodness. Rant A makes it into the daily contenders when it's a day old. Rant B makes it into the daily contenders when it's 2 hours old. Rant B has a huge advantage because it's so young. Is this something we care about? Do we feel like that is unfair? In a way I feel for Rant A because it basically never stood a chance. It broke into the daily competition only to immediately collapse under the weight of decay. But then in a way I think, "Sorry, should have gotten there sooner old man."

kizyahaha commented 9 years ago

Does resetting the decay really solve this? If rant A enters the daily level at 1 AM, and rant B enters the daily level at 1PM, and if the winner is declared at midnight, is there still an advantage for B because its decay is slower?

Or, it could be that rant A actually has an advantage because it had more exposure in the daily level.

Just spit balling, what about turning off decay for a period of time equal to the level?

kizyahaha commented 9 years ago

Go with do nothing. Doing anything about this adds complexity that would have to be explained. The game will also rely on such a fine balance, it almost seems frivolous to worry about something like this.