How do I get into the Top Rated mutual back-slap circle jerk union (TRMBSCJ local 706) so I can have my stank-ass comics debut at #1 every day?

Make a good comic.

Because my comics are ALWAYS at #1...

Look, we all rate comics fairly. None of us rates a comic "good" just because it's a friend of ours. I vote "good" on anything that makes me laugh out loud, "okay" on anything that gets an internal laugh, and "bad" on anything that's below that internal laugh par. I have rated some comics bad from people who ordinarily get a "good" vote from me simply because I thought the comic was bad. It doesn't matter how I feel about the person personally, and this is not the issue here. Sure there are a few people out there who can't control themselves and don't play fair, but I think most of us are honest in our ratings. And I don't appriciate you accusing me or anyone else of otherwise.

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Look, we all rate comics fairly.

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Look, we all rate comics fairly.

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That's a pretty broad statement. Do you really think every donor rates comics fairly?

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If you'd read on I admitted to there being a few strays, but for the most part, I think we all rate comics according to our own personal tastes.

I've been watching the Top Rated cycle for as long as all of you I'm sure. here's what I've seen:

1. Comic debuts and appears shortly thereafter with a score of 9.5 - 10

2. Comic is voted on by people that watch the list and almost always moves rapidly south (some really funny comics stay at or near the top of course)

This leads me to believe that in the day prior to the list refresh, that comic is being hit and rated only by people that either think it is damn funny or just want to up it's score.

I like to think that I have a good sense of humor but i'll admit that I am a harsh critic. What I find hard to believe is that in the day prior to the list refresh EVERY viewer, of what I think can only be an okay or bad comic, thought that comic was awesome.

If you are waiting for comics to appear on the toprated list before you read them, then yes, the new ones will probably all be scored 8-10. Because it takes a couple of votes for it to get there in the first place. Unless it's a comic posted in the forums, the only people who will have gone to the user's homepage to read it will be regular readers of theirs, fans if you will.

Let's say that myself, Scyess and Boorite all read Dougan's comics regularly, because we enjoy them. There's more chance that we'll rate his comics "good", because we like them. Once they appear on the toprated, other people will see this comic with a perfect score and read it, then they wont understand it because they are stupid and wrong and they'll rate it bad.

That's how it works.

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then they wont understand it because they are stupid and wrong and they'll rate it bad.

That's how it works.

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Let's say that myself, Scyess and Boorite all read Dougan's comics regularly, because we enjoy them.

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I once caught a thread in which someone admitted to being part of a cabal of folks circle jerking each others' comics up the list. Haven't bothered to look at the top-rated page since.

Simple solutions to simple problems.

What I love is when a rated comic's score goes down, even though there have been no new ratings on said comic. That's happened to me twice. Oh well.

What I want to know is...

HOW THE HELL DID THAT STUPID ASS TIMMY THE TAMPON COMIC OF MINE GET RATED A 5?!

>_<

Can I sit next to Noonie for the circle jerk?

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I once caught a thread in which someone admitted to being part of a cabal of folks circle jerking each others' comics up the list. Haven't bothered to look at the top-rated page since.

Simple solutions to simple problems.

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Comic rating?!?!?

* Spankling pulls up his pants and leaves *

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Look, we all rate comics fairly.

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That's a pretty broad statement. Do you really think every donor rates comics fairly?

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The top rated list is generally going to favor users who are popular within the Stripcreator community. That's the most reliable way to get over the biggest hurdle: getting more than 3 votes on a single comic. And if people are reading your comics, they're more likely to vote positively, giving your comic a high initial score.

As choad described, a while back the top rated page had stagnated and I did a bunch of junk just to get it moving again. There was like a 250,000 comic backlog and that list shouldn't have been standing still unless nobody was voting. It's bound to be kind of nuts and erratic until that backlog of voting dries up a bit.

Also it's important to keep in mind, when getting political about comic scores, that having a high score and a lot of votes is the most impressive thing.

Wirthling's "You've got cancer!" comic for instance is the most loved comic on the site with 52 votes and a score of 8.27, which is pretty impressive.

Don't take this as bragging, but I have quite a few comics in the toprated thing. And, being a n00b, I'm not a member of an "inner sanctum of donors." Just post a bunch of your best ones in RMDC and the magic should happen.

Not to make things more complicated, but maybe it should take 10 votes or more to be truly top-rated, and anything with 4 - 9 votes would be on a separate "up and coming" list.

Or you could work out some calculation where a strip with 52 votes and a score of 8.5 has a higher ranking than something with 4 votes and a 9. But I think the "two list" idea above might be easier to understand.

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Not to make things more complicated, but maybe it should take 10 votes or more to be truly top-rated, and anything with 4 - 9 votes would be on a separate "up and coming" list.

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*opens packet of biscuits*

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Comic rating?!?!?

* Spankling pulls up his pants and leaves *

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Wirthling's "You've got cancer!" comic for instance is the most loved comic on the site with 52 votes and a score of 8.27, which is pretty impressive.

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Wirthling's "You've got cancer!" comic for instance is the most loved comic on the site with 52 votes and a score of 8.27, which is pretty impressive.

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I do so love that comic. Several times I've relayed that comic verbally to friends and, because I can't tell a joke, butchered it terribly effectively removing all humor from it.

Anyway... that comic should be #1.

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The top rated list will now be updated twice a day.

When I check the toprated list my thinking tends to be "oh look at the new comics at the top of the list", then when I read them, I might think "yeah, that's funny, but is it really funnier than 'You've Got Cancer'? Nah, it's just "okay".

That being said, I tend not to vote a comic okay. In my opinion "okay" is like saying "not worth an opinion", so I won't bring a comic's rating down just because I couldn't make a decision wether I liked it or not.

But that's just me.

Also, I think possums has proved whoever it was that started this thread right.

I agree

Hardly any strips are as good as "you've got cancer." You can't use that as a milestone unless the rating system is expanded to be a 1-10 scale where something like You've Got Cancer could be rated 10 and anything less funny but funny none the less could be an 8 or 9.

I do in fact rate comics "okay." A lot of them. Because a lot of them are decently funny, okay strips... but they're not hilarious.

Yeah, I'm not saying that my way of thinking is right. It's not an all-encompassing theory, there are comics above YGC that I rate good. But there have been times where I think that maybe I'd like a comic more if it wasn't sitting at the top of the list claiming to be the best.

Bringing back the 1-10 rating system might not be a bad idea, nor would Fuzzy's two list idea.

I rate comics bad if they're higher than my highest rated comic.

Couldn't the order be determined by a formula that uses number of votes as a variable, and not just as a tie-breaker? Under that system, "YGC" would be top.

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Couldn't the order be determined by a formula that uses number of votes as a variable, and not just as a tie-breaker? Under that system, "YGC" would be top.

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It looks like Brad has changed the sort order to number of votes, then rating.

That seems like a solution.

But wouldn't that mean a comic lots of people rate bad is going to appear higher than a comic slightly less people have voted on but that is rated better?

Yes.

Yeah I was messing around with it yesterday and tried this way out. It's not very awesome this way.

oh so it's the same as it was before

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Just doesn't seem right without a dougan series telling me who's a cunt and who's more of a cunt.

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Great comic, Eric.

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Yeah I was messing around with it yesterday and tried this way out. It's not very awesome this way.

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No! We can't have any ambiguity about what's the top-rated comic!

Why does everyone like 'You've Got Cancer'? It's not even that funny.

In the context of the contest it appeared in, it's hilarious. Outside of that I still think it's pretty good.

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That might have been me you were interpreting incorectly. One night on #stripcreator, Brad made a page of all the comics that were one vote away from appearing on toprated. BigEvilDan and I went into a rating frenzy, voting on damn-near every comic on that list.

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WILD IN THE STREETS!

today i was going through the pending rating list and i rated one of chicka's comics okay. i then saw it had a 0 rating before and changed my vote to bad. later i realised that was mean and went to change it back, but i read the comic again and decided i thought it deserved the bad.

Where is that list, again?