The Springleap.comcommunity is growing larger by the day. With so many people signing up it takes a lot more effort to remember who’s who in the proverbial zoo. We have comments coming through constantly because, as is obvious, people want to show their support (or disdain) and make their voices heard above all the rest of the members.
Springleap.com doesn’t want people who come on to vote to simply feel like another number. Remember we are not the government, we see you as a person digitally represented through your member name. The first step in making yourself know is to step up and say “HI” in our very well known sticky article called Who are you? In the Wordup section.
This section allows you to introduce yourself to the community and let everyone know just exactly what kind of person you are.
Recently I was pondering whether or not a high amount of comments for any particular design in the Springleap.com voting period will perhaps forecast how well a design will do?
I have asked a few people what they think of this phenomenon and unfortunately received pretty mixed responses. Do you think a winner can be predicted purely based on the amount of comments he receives for his design? Voting predictions are not a science on Springleap.com…or are they?
First up there are a few points that need to be taken into consideration. Comments that came after the competition do not count (obviously). All the comments in question must come during the actual competition itself. We must also ask ourselves what exactly is driving the multiple comments? Finally, comments from the author that are not in response to a question do not count! This is by no means an exhaustive list, I’m sure there are many factors that should either include or deny a comment of actually fitting a scientific model of sorts.
One side of the voting predictionscoin includes “hate based comments” which affect voting predictions through numbers. For instance when we receive a design that is an obvious rip of another design the voting public can get pretty damn annoyed and the insults and calls for the design to be pulled can come in pretty fast and furious. This of course means that the design will receive lots of comments, but there is no way in Hades that they will win.
