@Laoldar, yes, but we can also be policing everything else that is posted here that is incorrect...which is a lot of things in retrospect. Every VGchartz post that got us buying up the futures is the biggest detriment. I think there's just a slippery slope here.
Maybe the solution is to allow people to revoke their bids...but even then, you couldn't pull back all of them.
We don't "believe" it's incorrect, we KNOW it's incorrect. This article claims 4 million pre-orders through ONE chain of stores in May. Microsoft announces 1 million pre-orders TOTAL in August.
Sure we can keep posting why it's wrong...but that doesn't stop people from glancing at the Halo 3 page and seeing the title of the article and assuming its true (the correct pre-order article has since fallen off the front). People aren't reading the comments...and even if they are, I've seen this number brought up in posts several times since August. It's affecting the numbers and the only way to fix that is to remove the false information.
@Laoldar, censorship really isn't the solution. Just as I wouldn't say we should ban people from talking about VGChartz (like some message boards have done), I wouldn't say we should delete the article. We should post on the article why we believe it is incorrect.
I like the idea of deleting it, but this one wouldn't get a majority behind it. This article has been mentioned repeatedly on here...users still think it's legit. When something is obviously false and is clearly affecting stock prices, the admins should step in and remove it or put up some sort of prominent notice that the article is false.
@csinning, Whoever posted the article, APace79 actually, should edit it. If he's no longer here then Kultofcows should edit it imo. Maybe we should be able to use Wiki on articles that are older than 3 months or something.
The admins should have ripped this article down. It was unsubstantiated and debunked months later by Microsoft themselves. Yet because it remains on the front page it continues to get more bids and I'm sure it is inflating the Halo 3 prices.
Ok, just to explain a better "value" feature. Substract the days the news is old from the bids that would end up in a ranking like that at the moment (I estimated the days):
10,000 US Midnight Sales & Free XBL Gold 12 (14-2) Lazard: Halo 3 To Quickly Push $200m In Sales 11 (11) Aussie Halo 3 hits eBay 6 (10-4) Halo 3 goes Gold (officially) 3 (29-26) Confirmed: Halo 3 has Four Player, Online Co-op -3 (37-40) Confirmed: Halo 3 to come in 3 editions this fall -5 (85-180) Halo 3 pre orders, Soaring Past 1 Million Milestone -10 (34-44) Halo 3 Preorders Reach Over Four-Million in North America -43 (77-120)
Well it was one possibility and i definitely miss that feature. At the moment I have to overlook all news to read the latest of a game. Thats just no fun. Another one was to change the Bid/Date value of a knews. I don't have to understand why "Confirmed: Halo 3 to come in 3 editions this fall" is the second ranked news. Yes it deserves 85+ bids, but really, know it isn't really news.
Forgive me if I've misinterpreted, but having a setting that changes the order of the articles only address a part of the issue. I can imagine a lot of people keeping with the status quo, and will therefore still be misled by these articles.
Hmmm I just wonder how many of the 77 original people would reverse. There are probably a lot of people who are no longer actively playing the SE. I really have no idea how articles are selected to be included in the frontpage, but even if 20 people reversed their bids, it still seems likely that it would appear on the front page
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Maybe the solution is to allow people to revoke their bids...but even then, you couldn't pull back all of them.