Hmm, there's a minimum-wage, getting-into-the-industry, intern-job from hell.
Go through the AE and tag all the farms for removal. For each submission, there should be a checklist of "what makes this a farm?", and if it meets those criteria, out it goes.
(If I weren't already gainfully employed, I would happily apply for that job. Maybe I can submit my unemployed husband for it...)
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THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
It's pretty easy to figure out how many arcs have been created. The number is almost 500,000 now. Just look at the ID# of the newest arc and subtract 999 (since they started the numbers at 1,000) To find out how many arcs are actually live, click on the last page of arcs and multiply by 20.
Maybe they should purge all the arcs that haven't been played in two years and also have a rating below 3.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Maybe they should purge all the arcs that haven't been played in two years and also have a rating below 3.
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OHH you don't want to open THAT can of worms..
. And, by the way, farms are usually 5 starred and get a lot of plays...
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But a purge of non-played unfavorable arcs would make searching for the farms easier.|
Originally Posted by Nebulhym
OHH you don't want to open THAT can of worms..
. And, by the way, farms are usually 5 starred and get a lot of plays... |
Of course, I'd simply make a script to find all the MA arcs where a significant number of people hit the Ticket cap in a ridiculously short period of time and give those arcs a closer scrutiny... and purge the other dross, too.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
But a purge of non-played unfavorable arcs would make searching for the farms easier.
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Simply because we've had so many changes that old, inactive arcs are going to tend to HAVE those errors, at least from what I've seen - invalid maps, character changes, item changes, etc.
When they find one, send an email (and/or admin tell) to the account. Give them 30 days to fix/remove it. If it isn't either fixed or removed, it gets auto-removed.
Farms *seem* to get removed, as it is. At least the ones that are caught. The broken ones - well, would fall into the above, possibly.
Fyi, there are only 69,940 arcs currently published.
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Fyi, there are only 69,940 arcs currently published.
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Well, what's even the POINT, then?
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My arcs: Dream Paper (ID: 1874) | Bricked Electronics (ID: 2180) | The Bravuran Jobs (ID: 5073) | Backwards Day (ID: 329000) | Operation Fair Trade (ID: 391172)
Having played many hundreds of arcs and started several times that number only to quit when I found out it was a farm, "test" arc or just something almost no effort went into I'd estimate the actual playable arc percentage to be around 20%.
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457506 - A Very Special Episode - An abandoned TV, a missing kid's TV show host and more
416951 - The Ms. Manners Task Force - More wacky villains, Wannabes. things in poor taste
or one of my other arcs including two 2010 Player's Choice Winners and an2009 Official AE Awards Nominee for Best Original Story
Well, all seven of mine work, I think. So there you folks go! One per night for a week! 
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Of an interesting note, one such arc is somewhere on page 4 or 5. It's sort of locked itself in at that star rating and you can't play it to rate it (up or down, since it may be decent) and there's been no response from the author through tells.
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
I'd go more for having unfixed errors in the arc preventing it from being played (60 days)
Simply because we've had so many changes that old, inactive arcs are going to tend to HAVE those errors, at least from what I've seen - invalid maps, character changes, item changes, etc. When they find one, send an email (and/or admin tell) to the account. Give them 30 days to fix/remove it. If it isn't either fixed or removed, it gets auto-removed. |
(according to an infobox in Ten Ton Hammer's interview with Positron.)
And I'll bet at least 300,000 are farms.
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