jimdahl

What a wild night in the East. Pittsburgh and Washington each went to 2OT before winning and taking a 3-1 series lead (Washington after being down 0-3 in the 3rd). Meanwhile, Detroit is the first to advance with a 4-0 series sweep of Phoenix.

The moderators have been having lengthy discussions and are privately addressing some of the angst expressed in this thread. I'm not going to close it yet, because it could still be an interesting topic of discussion in coming days, but only if people quit responding to the off-topic personal discussions.

Yep, that's exactly what led to limiting it to one per day. When that started happening, the choices were try to contain the damage or shut the whole thing down. I think there's still a lot of value from seeing which posts get a lot of green or red while scanning a thread, so I thought containing the damage better than losing that functionality. You, for example, are pretty close to even (which is certainly lower than you deserve, but not particularly damaging; I'll probably reset them all when we get a better system in place, anyway). Here are two more things (in addition to stopping self-rep) that I could do immediately (without further improvements to the underlying system): * Only allow positive rep. This would really contain the vendetta problem, but we'd also lose the big red warning on bad posts that I think is one of the biggest benefits of the system. * Only display post rep, not user rep. This one kind of tempts me. As I've said above, the current system is really better geared toward highlighting good/bad posts, so I could just hide the user rep totals and eliminate most of the vendetta incentive.

But then they'd just be able to give you -10 per day, too. The flaw isn't the amount of rep you can give, it's the way personal rep is tallied. This system was pretty clearly designed for the reputation to be for the post itself (so, for example, you could set your viewing thresholds not to see posts with a negative rep, like Slashdot comments), but it additionally use that post reputation to tally rep for each person. That's a problem, as I'll elaborate on a little bit more... This gets to the heart of it. I was commenting on a post's reputation, whereas you're talking about a person's reputation. I agree that a person moving themself in the way you describe is undesirable, but I haven't noticed it to be a big problem. I can turn off the ability to rep one's own posts... that will fix the problem of someone pumping up themself, but not the bigger problem of someone being willing to burn all their rep opportunities on a vendetta. I think the biggest problem with the current system is that a person's rep is the sum of the rep of all of their posts. The fix for that is easy -- each person should have a limited amount of influence over another person's rep. Without such a limit, any rep system is clearly open to abuse, making it easy for people to pump up their friends and exercise vendettas.

Nope. The current system is very limited or, frankly, I'd change a lot of things. However, I'm not sure being able to rep your own post is necessarily so bad. If the rep you can give is limited and it has a limited effect on the rep of who you give it to, then spending it to draw attention to a post of yours you think deserves it can sometimes make sense. However, there's not much to debate at this point, as I said I can't change much. Basically, I can turn it off/on and limit the rep each person has to give per day. I know a few improvements are coming in the next version, and maybe someday I'll find the time to make some improvements of my own.

Wow, that is a scary stat. I was happy with the Caps last night. Being comfortable in that sort of tight game with a more defensive play is exactly what Boudreau coached them for with the big change in December. Not many odd man rushes and I think the Caps ended with almost as many, if not more, blocked shots than the Rangers. Plus, it's hard not to be pleased with Ovie and Arnott to Semin scoring. It's only one win in a game that could easily have gone either way, but it's better than one loss.

Goon will like this... Computer simulation predicts Bruins will lift Cup But this prediction is just like throwing a ball at the broad side of a barn...

Yep, just got it up last night (traveling home before that). Final Standings Not shockingly, our UMD friends jumped up on the performance scoring (which gives a lot of credit for correctly guessing the champ). tho0505 managed to tie for 1st in both scoring systems.

That would be one of Danny's Foxes, I believe -- I recall that there were at least Silver and Platinum (I did cheat and reread my old notes).

But at least Kirk is staying home, so we stand a shot, right?

http://umdpenaltybox.com/

Yep. There were undoubtedly some jerk UMD fans at the Final Five, probably more than people are used to because of UMD's success and Minnesota's lack of such. I think this theme keeps coming up because UND fans are used to thinking of UMD as an ally (it would be like being at a neutral game and having all the Maine fans be jerks to us and cheer against us). But, as has been said many times already in this thread, there are plenty of Sioux fans I hope other fanbases don't automatically judge me by just because I'm also a Sioux fan. Now Gopher fans, they're all...

Thanks. There was a link to this in the Frattin for Hobey thread, but it really deserved its own. It's always amazing to see the sort of national publicity that UND athletics receives from its marquee D-I hockey program.

Tonight Ovechkin became the 7th player ever to score 80 or more points in all of his first 6 seasons (others were Gretzky, Lemieux, Bossy, Hawerchuk, Stastny, and Robitaille).

Thanks, I updated the link.

First, since this thread was created the process for YouTube has changed, now you can just paste in a youtube link and it will autoembed. Flickr makes it a little tricky to get the URL of the actual photo, the URL it gives you if you click share is actually the URL of the web page. To get the URL of a photo itself, starting from a photo page like this: Right-click (in most browsers on Windows) on the photo and choose something like "view image". That will load the photo itself in its own tab, and you can then copy that URL (that ends in .jpg) and use it to embed an image.

On a New Path, Leading Right to the Frozen Four - NY Times

This is why these threads keep getting closed, they're on topic for about 5 posts before they turn into attack fests. It's probably time to consider this controversy closed and get back to hockey... I hear there's a game next week.

http://www.undalumni.org/Page.aspx?pid=1755

I'm in. If you see this guy... ...be sure to say "hey Jim" (or "hey siouxsports.com guy" if you forget) and he'll buy you a beer.

I was baffled by this for a second, not having thought that Hard Times Cafe had spread outside DC... but apparently it hasn't. There is a Hard Times Café in Minneapolis, unrelated to the popular D.C.-area chili parlor linked above.

Wow -- good to see you Fedorov. An overdue Frozen Four appearance is bringing everyone out of the woodwork (I, too, am thrilled not to see B.C. after my mistake of being excited about the revenge meetup in Denver, though wouldn't have minded a shot at Yale this year, #2 vs #1).

If UND and Duluth win, luapsided is guaranteed a win. Not sure if anyone within striking distance can take the lead if one, but not both, lose. Leaderboard

Yeah, I'll post the rankings soon, which will include a link to everyone's bracket. Probably tonight.