personally, as I've proposed previously, I think you could expand that further. I think there is very little difference between say 35-50 place. Really outside the top 20, you could start having the same points for batches of five imo

My mon nothing but heat

Yeah and it's a tight line between not disregarding the bottom votes and still letting them affect the scores but also making sure the top votes keep their high point totals without being over the top. Realistically, how many 50 placements should equal 1 1st placement. Not 50 that's for sure. Maybe 6 to 8 honestly.

If you wanna get it to work like that maybe something like:

1st = 80 pts
2nd = 75 pts
3rd = 70 pts
...
10th = 35 pts
11-15th = 30 pts
16-20th = 25 pts
21-30th = 20 pts
31-40th = 15 pts
41-50th = 10 pts

You think a 1st place should equal more than 2 10th places? 10th place is still a crazy high rank. I'm in the midst of working on one similar to this

• I would rather clump the bottom in groups of 5 because as minimal as it may be 41 is still high enough that I think it gets more points than 50

Yeah I think it's reasonable for a 1st place to be worth ~2 10th places. I would think most people would feel that way tbh

That would mean an album that potentially gets 2 #1 votes and nothing else automatically destroys an album that gets 10 votes in the 25-50 range. While the 2 #1's should get good points, it disregards the 10 people who think a different album is better. I'm trying to find a better balance. I'm working on one that's looking like this

1st - 78pts
2nd - 74
3rd - 70
4th - 67
5th - 64
6th - 61
7th to 16th 2 point increase
16th would be 41 points

17th to 30th is flat ranking

31-35 } 25 points
36-40 } 20
41-45 } 15
46-50 } 10

That way an album with, let's say 8 votes in the 1-25 range could equal or slightly usurp an album with 15 votes varying from 20th to 50th. Wouldn't that be fair??

I understand that a 1st place generally means someone thinks it's a masterpiece but imo two votes in the 15 range should equal that since 2 people love an album almost enough for top 10.

top 5 should get like triple the points or something. make ranking mean something. otherwise the top 20 will be super predictable and boring (like always).

This is dumb and you know it. You wanna talk predictable, your method would make the most predictable of all. If you're the only person voting for Neurosis, I'm not tripling your #1 vote and having it rank higher than an album that potentially gets 6-10 ratings within the 20-25 zone. Where is the logic in this

I think its fair to want to do 1 album per artist to get a more diverse list

with that said there is absolutely no way in hell I could omit Yeezus since that is legit a top 3 album of the decade for me. Kanye goated and that need to be represented.

Rise: wants top 5 votes to carry ridiculous weight to avoid predictability

Me: looks at current Yeezus and MBDTF voting

yeezus and mbdtf are gonna top the charts regardless, so that's beside the point

you're also a giant vagina for using a jennifer lawrence gif

I think you should consider the psychology of ranking. I generally observe that people think in terms of top 3/5 (generally having an established order of preference for these), top 10, top 20, top 50. I think the weighting should reflect that.

I think your weighting suggests that the difference between 17th and 30th is less significant than the difference between 31st and 50th, which seems upside down to me.

I think there must always be a constant or increasing change in the weighting as the rank approaches 1.
How about:

46-50 10
41-45 11
36-40 12
31-35 14
26-30 17
21-25 20
16-20 24
11-15 28
6-10 32
5 37
4 42
3 48
2 54
1 60

Or if you want it to ramp up less from 5 til 1 you can play around with those intervals. For example:

5 37
4 38
3 40
2 42
1 45

Or:

5 37
4 40
3 43
2 46
1 50

Or whatever.

it's just a gif bro calm down

arel really talkin bout the psychology of ranking bruh

My current ranking is a rough draft and is not the absolute way I'm ranking them rn. I do appreciate the input and I'm working on a way to improve the middle of my ratings @arel

At the end of the day they are just lists and the results will be somewhat similar regardless

And we can all agree at least that no matter what I choose it will be better than the flat rankings I used to do.

In the meantime everybody make your damn lists!!!

@rise_zero also don't think you realize that the albums that get alot of votes tend to place in the top 5 regardless

Also @arel I feel like people want to still have their bottom votes represented since it's probably hard to knock off certain albums and give them 0 points but i'll figure it out

How could I forget?
I’ll make sure you’re tagged tmrw

No worries lol

I mean it's up to you. I'm just giving feedback. Nevertheless i do note that my suggestion gives quite a lot of weight to 50th place. 2 50th = 1 21st. 5 or 6 50th = 1 1st.

surprised you managed to come up with 50 different artists tbh, i could never fill my list if i wasnt adding multiple albums by one artist