Maybe you could sort by popularity? At the beginning it would be pseudo-random, but as the votes started tallying, the more popular songs would start rising to the top. Sort of like how last.fm does it.
http://www.last.fm/user/creole/ (that's my page on last.fm. See how the artists at top are the most listened to? Then you get sort of a tail effect towards the bottom. <!----------------//------ andy matthews web developer certified advanced coldfusion programmer ICGLink, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615.370.1530 x737 --------------//---------> -----Original Message----- From: Ken Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 3:57 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Hey, does anyone have any ideas regarding a "top 40" voting system? I'd even break it down further Jeff. I'd have them only pick 1 or maybe up to 5 songs out of the list and follow your points-accumulation idea from there. Then you can easily rank songs based on their point totals. Also, as far as presentation goes, I'd try to randomize the presentation order if I were doing it to try and avoid certain songs always being toward the top of the list. Thanks, Ken Ferguson 214.636.6126 -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 3:26 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Hey, does anyone have any ideas regarding a "top 40" voting system? I've been asked to help out a friend conceptually, but I'm not sure exactly how to proceed. He wants to have a "top 40" voting system where they will put 40 song titles up on a web page, and people will "vote" on them. Sounds pretty simple, but I'm not sure about what would be the best way. He seems to be leaning toward "we'll put them on the site, and people will put them in the order that they want them in" but that sounds kinda clumsy and unwieldy. I can't see people having the patience to REALLY do that. What about the ones near the bottom? Would people just get tired after about 20 of them and just submit? What would you do about ones that don't get "votes" or aren't filled in? What order would you present the songs in? Alphabetical seems the likely choice, but what about all the songs that begin with "W" or "T" or the ones shoved to the bottom? Would the songs beginning with A naturally gravitate to the top simply because of the way they're presented to the user? Do you see where I'm coming from? Has anyone ever built a voting tabulation system to do something like this? I was leaning towards a "points system" where maybe people picked their top ten songs, and they got a point value based on their ranking. 10 points for first place, 9 for second, etc, and totaling up all the "scores" each song gets. I realize that a TRUE top 40 system is a system that rewards sales, and so I'm struggling with how to rectify "voting" for something that would normally be easily to tabulate. Any suggestions, both from an interface standpoint, and the pure tabulations standpoint? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:248569 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
