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Re:Stop trying to be smart... by SEWilco · 2011-06-29 11:58 · Score: 1 · on Cool-Factor Predicted To Spur Energy Conservation

There's no need for clever new strategies to promote adoption. If you want to sell something just give it sex appeal. Sex sells. Always has, always will.

But I think these people want to counter HotOrNot.

Re:adolescent behavior by Aryden · 2011-05-13 21:49 · Score: 4, Insightful · on Disorderly Conduct Charge for Offensive Classmate Ratings

oh my god, all people are helpless little flowers. We have to do it FOR THE CHILDREN...

Give me a fucking break. If having your ass and breasts rated on facebook is horrible for the girls getting 1's and 2's, how about the girls getting 10's? I mean shit, you might as well go arrest Mark Z as well as the people at http://hotornot.com/.

Re:Self-esteem. by Locke2005 · 2011-03-03 05:39 · Score: 1 · on Facebook Boosts Your Self-Esteem

So... what's your current rating on hot or not?

Re:I'll be impressed by sorak · 2010-06-18 03:31 · Score: 2, Funny · on IBM's Question-Answering System "Watson" Revisited

If it can properly rate if these people are hot or not.

I think we need a site called "bot or not". You look at someone's browsing history and determine the likelihood that their system is infected.

I'll be impressed by Kitkoan · 2010-06-17 17:19 · Score: 5, Interesting · on IBM's Question-Answering System "Watson" Revisited

If it can properly rate if these people are hot or not.

Re:heres a scientific way by purpleraison · 2009-07-27 04:34 · Score: 1 · on Are Women Getting More Beautiful?

http://www.hotornot.com/ ....oh yeah.

Re:Prior art??? by kpoole55 · 2009-06-14 02:18 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Seeking Hot-Or-Not Patent

Yeah, here it is ... http://www.hotornot.com/

Compute this by Anonymous Coward · 2008-03-31 18:13 · Score: 0 · on Women's Attractiveness Judged by Software

Compute this: http://meetme.hotornot.com/r/?emid=G8RMOQK

Re:STV sucks by CTachyon · 2008-01-09 02:35 · Score: 1 · on Western-Style Voting 'A Loser'

Ranked Pairs is far and away the best option. It satisfies the monotonocity criterion. It is very simple to understand, especially from the perspective of a voter. You simply rank who you want to vote for. (Any voter who doesn't like it can simply rank their candidate #1 and leave the rest blank, just as we do now.)

I was a huge fan of Schulze method (another Condorcet variant, and one used in the real world in Debian elections), until RangeVoting.org convinced me today that Favorite Betrayal is an actual problem in any Condorcet method. Not only does Range Voting not have this problem, it also bypasses a lot of the Arrow's Impossibility Theorem baggage (since Arrow only applies to ranked systems, not scored systems) and, even better, is nearly as simple as Plurality or Approval.

(As the RV.org site points out, when you sit down and write code to implement a Condorcet method, any of them, you end up with about twice as much code compared to implementing RV. I've implemented Schulze voting before, so I know that of which they speak. Meanwhile, with RV, you just sum the votes as you would with Plurality or Approval, then divide by the number of voters. The fact that each vote is a ranged score rather than a {0|1} doesn't really change how the code works. Maybe you add a simple quorum check on the final score sums, but that's 2 lines of Perl using sort and grep.)

Plus bee swarms use it to vote on new hive locations, so even though I was skeptical at first about the Bayesian regret metric, RV is a tried and tested voting method in the real world, and bees are considerably less intelligent than even the dumbest voter.

There are two main problems with range voting. One, it makes voting overly complicated (not to the Slashdot crowd, but for the average voter.) Two, it is subject to gaming. Voters will be likely to rate secondary candidates lower than how they really feel in order to increase their top candidate's odds.

Re #1: I'd argue that RV is actually simpler than any ranked ballot. Seven words: Hot or Not, Olympic scoring, IMDb, Netflix. Every Joe-on-the-Street already understands RV. It's one of the three simplest systems possible (after Approval and Plurality). Try out this Range Vote on the US Presidential race — unlike Condorcet, you don't have to stand around hemming and hawing about exactly which order you'd put them in, plus you can actually express "I have no opinion" by leaving a line blank. (And since they threw in all the kitchen sink candidates on that poll, you'll use that option a lot.)

(In Condorcet, your only option for unknown candidates is to lump them all together in one big tie in the middle... but you're still saying "These unknown candidates are definitely worse than any of the ones I like" and "These unknown candidates are definitely better than any of the ones I hate". One of them could be {your undiscovered favorite|the reincarnation of Hitler}, but you've just {hurt|helped} their campaign. RV lets you leave them blank, so that better informed voters can put their knowledge to work — but thanks to the quorum, unknown bad candidates can't win by voting once for themselves or anything silly like that.)

(Oh, and speaking of unknowns, RV works well with write-in candidates, thanks to the quorum. Condorcet does not, since write-ins are implicitly in last place on every ballot by default.)

Re #2: Yes, there's some ga

Re:Hot? by HansF · 2007-06-11 05:41 · Score: 1 · on Evolution of the 'Captcha'

Here's the link: http://www.hotcaptcha.com/ it's using the HotOrNot API
It's actually quite fun to do.

Really? by DocJohn · 2007-04-30 04:06 · Score: 3, Insightful · on How to Stop Digg-cheating, Forever

The difference is that on HotOrNot, it doesn't work. On HotOrNot, you can cast votes for a picture in one of two ways. The first way is to go directly to the URL for someone's picture; the second way is to load the front page, where a random picture from the database is selected at random, and vote for whatever picture comes up. The catch is that the votes that you cast by going directly to someone's picture, are simply ignored in calculating the average score for that photo.

Really? Nowhere in the HotOrNot FAQ ( http://www.hotornot.com/pages/faq.html ) does it mention that only certain votes are counted. In fact, the FAQ addresses a question about friends clicking on your photo:

10. I know my friends have voted on my picture already, but I don't see any votes when I log in to check my score! What's going on?

Votes are not tabulated instantly, they are counted every hour or so. Check your picture rating again later.

Randomization wouldn't work on digg, because I'd say about 90% of the submissions are spam/junk or repeats. If you make me wade through that 90% randomly in order for me to vote on something I think is interesting, I'm going to stop voting altogether. Me and hundreds of thousands of others, I suspect.

hot or not? by raffe · 2007-03-23 01:05 · Score: 0, Offtopic · on Which IT Careers Are Hot and Which are Not?

Well if you want to check if you are hot or not you can always go to hotornot and.....ohh THATS what you mean.....never mind

Hardly the first by Anonymous Coward · 2007-02-21 13:13 · Score: 0 · on The World's First National Internet Election

We've had prestigious internet voting for years. Take, for example, the brutally honest Hot or not, or the illustrious Rate My Poo.

Those Estonians have nothing on us!

This article and thread are so redundant... by shoolz · 2006-10-27 09:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic · on Microsoft Office Genuine Advantage (OGA)

...that I feel I can waste slashdot's time rating the superhunks.

You forgot 7 by TCQuad · 2006-04-02 06:15 · Score: 1 · on The Real Purpose of DRM

7) Pictures on-line may be hours, days, months or years old and people's appearance will change. Her techsploitation info page has her looking either slightly butch or anime (you gotta have blue hair...).

So, basically, unless looking at her turns you to stone, let the original poster have his humble opinion and, if you want to disagree, that's fine, but let's not turn this into a discussion over whether this woman is hot or not. There's a website for explicitly for made for that discussion if you're into that sort of thing.

Re:crackpots, the lot of them, but were they hot? by WillAffleckUW · 2006-02-27 11:31 · Score: 1 · on Da Vinci Code Author Sued

so Jesus had kids. What's wrong with that? Why would Catholic church be upset by this? We could all be descendents of JC.

Actually, my question is, how did they rate on Hot or Not?

That might answer whether or not there were many descendents ...

Re:Wrong word choice by FuturePastNow · 2006-01-15 18:32 · Score: 1 · on Web Users Judge Sites Instantly

It's more like Hot or Not for websites.

wow - getting paid for this! by sprocketonline · 2005-11-04 02:41 · Score: 1 · on Amazon's Mechanical Turk

Stop the gripe about the pay. $0.03 is better than nothing. Now all we have to do is link it up to RateMyVomit.com or HotOrNot.com!
If millions of people are happy to spend hours of their life rating pictures for free on these websites, then getting a few cents to rate some equally meaningless pictures is good pay.

Am I Hot or Not? by faqmaster · 2005-10-31 01:12 · Score: -1, Troll · on Elect NoSoftwarePatents as European Of The Year

This is the GPL version of Hot or Not?

Re:Not without flemish women by troon · 2005-09-28 03:04 · Score: 1 · on Nuna 3 wins World Solar Cup for the 3rd Time

Slashdot becomes Hot Or Not...

hot or not by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-29 00:25 · Score: 0 · on Japanese Develop 'Female' Android

you decide http://www.hotornot.com/r/?eid=EQBERUO&key=HTL

Re:This'll come in handy... by br0ck · 2005-07-22 17:51 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Google Offers Hybrid Satellite and Map View

Maybe you'll find the marriage between Google maps and hotornot personals even handier. (next in the popup from the pushpin takes you through all pics for a given zip - link via metafilter this morning)

hotornot.com by peter303 · 2005-07-21 08:44 · Score: 1 · on Top 10 Web Fads

What about people posting crudy pictures of themselves and asking millions of strangers to rate them solely on their looks?
This was even turned into a TV reality show so bad that it was canceled after a couple episodes.

Who is Bram Cohen? by krbvroc1 · 2005-06-21 01:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic · on Bram Cohen's Response to Microsoft's Avalanche

Dear Mr. Taco, I'd like to suggest that the article summary is not very useful because you fail to even mention who Bram Cohen is. Luckily, I googled and found him on Hot or Not.

http://www.hotornot.com/r/?eid=GLBQN8G&key=VLS&sid =GL

For those like me who never heard the name before he is author of Bittorrent.