Food Fight voting

[Tom P]

Is anyone aware that you can vote over and over again for the same recipe? So the votes are meaningless?

[PaulaT]

it looks like things are playing fairly this time???

[im_nomad]

I think it's kind of sad that when you go in to the "winners" page, you see one pretty good recipe, the macnpizza (or whatever it was called.....), and the "this will get you laid" macaroni and velveeta...as "winners".

and many, many wonderful recipes.....not a mention on the main page.

[PaulaT]

That was one of my very strange reactions to this whole thing - I voted once when I first submitted my 'after the binge soup' and was actually shocked when it started getting lots of votes. Since I wrote it hung over, there were lots of mistakes, but didn't know I could edit it. I tried voting when it came into first place and was surprised that I could vote more than my first vote. I did vote once everyday after that - I did not know you could do a lot of voting as seemed to be indicated at this thread.

[gyrobot]

Well apparently a new one is coming out and as always Alex alligator is going troll the contest with some offensive recipe.

[TrishUntrapped]

Obviously this is is kids playing around — and I think it destroys Chow's credibility to some degree.

Although the votes don't determine a winner, they do show a very flawed system that was put into place and is remaining in place. Until the problem is fixed, I won't be reading the food fight challenges anymore.

Also, the ad that is running for suggestions for the next food fight often contain profanities or profanity like comments, as well as some pretty useless suggestions.

This lack of moderation is turning me off bigtime.

[davina]

We know there's been some concern about this voting thing. Gman and his mac-n-hot-pocket delicacy getting tens of thousands of votes has caused some alarm (though I see now that alexalligator has knocked gman out of first place with a mac 'n' cheese recipe that includes chicken nuggets, cheese pizza, and mac and cheese).

Note that this is our first Food Fight Challenge. It ends on Friday and the next one will start up right away; we're not changing the technology behind the voting just yet. We're testing the waters, and we honestly didn't expect the system to be quite so gamed. But to anyone thinking that by voting 50,000 times that they're actually gaming anyone: give up. The contest is judged by the CHOW food editors, and we decide which ones we want to test. It says in the rules that we are using voting as a "guideline" -- that was because we didn't limit it to one person, one vote and we wanted to reserve the right to choose a quality recipe. And that's what we will do, when we figure out the winner.

[gyrobot]

Thank god, hopefully that will teach them, their little vote rigging got them nowhere.

[whirlygirly]

From some of the comments it seems that this is some sort of "retaliation" for Chow's advertising on a gaming site? Weird.

I know they think they're spoiling all our fun, but I'm still interested to see who will win. Will there be test kitchen reviews of all the finalists? That would be cool. And, if nothing else, I've got a bunch of new recipes I want to try!

Although.. I do think it might be kind of amusing to see a Supertaster video of the mac-n-pocket. :D

[LNG212]

Well now I'm really disappointed. I wondered how some recipes could have thousands of votes already. I guess I should have caught that before I submitted my recipe. :)

[whirlygirly]

Well, if you read the contest rules, the votes don't actually determine the winner. However, in future contests I think it would be good to make it so you can only vote once per day per computer.

[MMRuth]

Interesting question - I wondered about that but didn't want to test it by "voting".