Let me know if I'm wrong but it looks like the way that recordings are verified is if zwaxy does the verifying only.

If so, maybe this scheme would help in letting the players help verify the recordings and also alleviate some of of the duties from zwaxy so he can have more time working on maintaning MARP, making recordings and domestic stuff. :)

I've played back a few recordings to see how some of the games are played, but I dont have the administrative rights to move the recording into the verified category. It would be nice to show that that these recordings do work and at least someone has verified the recordings.

Allow some players to verify each recording, I'm thinking top XX on the leader board. A recording would need XX amount of points to be unofficialy verified, unofficially verified being verified by the leader board players. Zwaxy or another equaly assigned administrator would have final verifaction.

As it is now, it looks like green equals not verified and brown(orange?) shows verified. In the new scheme a new color would be used to show a cumulation of players verified the recording. An additional color could be used to show that at least some other players have verified the recording.

If you wanted to use just the top 20 players in the leader board you could assign a factor of 21 to the player verifaction color.

Each player in the leader board would get a weight factor depending on there position. Leader board player one would have a weight factor of 20 and the 20th place position would have a factor of 1.

If the number 1 player and any other player verified a recording, it would be player verified. If the number 11 (10pts) player, number 15 (6pts) and number 16 player (5pts) verified a recording it would be player verified. Any player taggingt the recording as verified would put it on the partialy verified state.

The numbers could be jumbled around to make the factor = 45 and let the top 30 players allow verification or what not.

Just some thoughts. :)

-- Dave Kaupp (info@kaupp.cx), October 10, 1999

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Well Dave... I'm one who confirms recordings... quite a number of them actually. And there's more confirmers out there... my guess is around ten or so. While the MARP has been in existance of it's python scripts(or shortly thereafter the beginning of such), if you click the confirm button, then it's confirmed. Period. So in other words, you only needed one person to hit the confirm button.

And now comes my counter-argument. There are literally TONS of games that are unconfirmed... at least 4,000... maybe 5,000, and yes, a good portion of them involve top 3 spots. If we used this system, it would be EXTREMELY hard to get a game confirmed. Don't get me wrong, some games would be confirmed, but that number would be much less than the current system if you ask me.

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), October 10, 1999.

Dave, definitley keep track of the recoridngs that did work and especially those that didn't playback, to send to zwaxy or if there's ever a mailing list of those who confirm to the future mailing list. I thought zwaxy was trying to keep it a secret that he wasn't the only one that confirms recordings. :)

-- Chad (churritz@cts.com), October 10, 1999.

Shhhh! :o)

(See me around the back in 10 minutes)

-- Zwaxy (zwaxy@mail.com), October 10, 1999.

Basicly what I'm suggesting is changing the confirmation from a boolean to an accumulation number. Each player would have a base number depending on there leaderbord position.

A new color could be introduced that would show that the score has at least been partially confimed by a number of users.

Green would still be unconfirmed 0-10 points. Yellow could show partially confirmed 11-50, over 50 (brown) would be confimed.

A person on the verification list would get an automatic 50 points added, bringing the recording into the confirmed (brown) state. The numbers could be moved around of course.

As MARP gets bigger in the future, there could be more players that could do at least some of the verification. Or at least show that some scores do playback, if not officially verified.

-- Dave Kaupp (info@kaupp.cx), October 11, 1999.