Properly speaking, it is an ad, but I don’t get money for it, just some kind of in-game point thing. It’s actually worth checking out; Like Advance Wars for the DS, but you can take several days to make a move and play against multiple human opponents, getting an email when it is your turn.

If you want to try for a game with me and, invariably, win, my user name is jeremiahbritt.

This assumes that a rating is a cumulative score, like a grade (i.e. 9 answers right, 1 partial credit). However, when you are aggregating votes from a diverse user base this model doesn’t work. The more votes that something has, the more likely it is that there will be one or more contrarians or detractors–people who would have ignored the post if it had a low post count but are encouraged to vote against it because of the number of “views”.

In other words, a boring, non-controversial and overlooked post can rank higher then a much viewed, exciting post that merely has 1 detractor, even out of 10, 100 or more votes. Even oscar winners have a couple of negative reviews, that doesn’t make them worse movies than a home video whose only (positive) review is from the director’s mother.

I’m hoping that there is some way to use the total score of the ratings variable to find “true” highly rated posts. The only problem is, if Post C is rated 1 1000 times and post D is rated 5 100 times, Post C will be ranked higher.

I’m developing the fear that I’ll have to go in and do something along the lines of “1=-2, 2=-1, 3=0, 4=1, 5=2″ and then calculate totals. But I’m hoping that isn’t the only option.

As a temporary fix I’ve also included links to the top 5 most rated.

Once I figure this out, a TOP 100 page will be put up.

Also, a new thread was started on SomethingAwful.com. If you choose to contribute via SA, please use the new thread.

After about two hours of searching for a solution I found an errant list tag in one of my sidebar widgets that caused absolutely no problem in Firefox.

I feel stupid.

Oh well, live and learn.

On the bottom of the individual videos and the main pages you will now see this:

If you click on it you either have the option of posting that page/post to a variety of social networking sites

or emailing it to a friend.

I’ve also started fiddling with the CSS, which is silly, because I don’t know anything about CSS.

This is what I have so far:

This is a blockquote. I’m particularly proud of this. I think it is both pretty and geeky, like that one hot girl that always shows up at the comic book store, but none of the comic nerds know how to talk to her. It uses <blockquote>

THIS IS A SHOUTBOX. The font is bold as default, and the main purpose of this is to operate as a block-quote but draw attention to important disclaimers or announcements by using a psychedelic frog. It uses <shout>

My hope is that all of this looks cool and adds to the feel of a classic gaming site, without being too busy, distracting, or obnoxious.

The other pretty bits on the site are the headers and footers, to which I will add game sprites from popular vids, the rating stars and the tag cloud.

These posts could not be transfered because embedding has been disallowed by the user:

• storming vengeance fails at Cheese Cat-astrophe
• storming vengeance fails at Miracle Warriors – Seal of the Dark Lord
• storming vengeance fails at Ghost House
• Deadeye Dick fails at Dynamite Kablooey
• storming vengeance: Galactic Protector
• storming vengeance: MONTEZUMA’S REVENGE

So, the site’s pretty much done, at least moved from alpha to beta status. It would be just splendid if you guys could check it out and give me some feedback, or even just vote all of your own videos 5 stars and everyone else’s 1.

Still to do:

• I’m still trying to figure out why authors names are randomly dropped on the individual console pages. It has something to do with WordPress’s loops and, well, I am to web design as Dr. Frankenstein is to modern medicine:I just cobble shit together without worrying to much how the individual parts work. This will be fixed, one way or the other, even if I have to use a different tagging module or do multiple loops.
• Finish posting the videos in this thread. I have 70ish to go, so I’m over halfway there.
• I’ve requested a greasemonkey script from the TinyAppz thread and from the userscripts.org site. Basically, when I right click on a video link (youtube, dailymotion, googlevideo, et al) it will copy the embed code automatically, so I don’t have to load a bunch of pages with videos to do each post. I could go to the OP, right click an entry, paste in WordPress, publish, repeat.
• Add more favorite characters to the header graphic and make it less Mario-centric.

And the peasants rejoiced.