I'm thinking of starting a monthly cooking challenge thread...

Yeah well who made you leader of the retards?

I'm trying to push my cooking this year, so I'd be down to clown.

Haha!! You sound like a 6 year reenacting a viilians lines from a low budget pg-13 movie they saw.
I kek @ you. Thanks for that, faggot.

lmao trying to push it up your asshole? Bet you like that dont you little cum stain. This aint no FAGGOT contest so get the fuck out with your aids your cooking is fucking shittier GET THE FUCK OUT

Kek away I`m going to enjoy skinning you alive and then pouring vinegar and salt all over your exposed flesh. Ill live stream it to ck and theyll see the nigger I pay raping you over and over whilst I saw off parts of your body bit by bit

Quit trying so hard you loser.

Who the fuck are you you fucking faggot? If i find out who you are im going to cut your fucking heart out stupid CUNT

XD so randumb

God damn, you're still around
I'm in, but not sure how often as university and all

Well youre not succeeding at anything else in your pathetic life so i dont know how you would ever succeed at finding me irl.
But your massive ass madness is bretty gud kek.

Wow, this year is already shaping up to be even "better" than last year.

Thanks Lorrie

I'm game

I'm new to this, what is this?

The biggest shitstorm on Veeky Forums. Used to be fun 3-4 years ago.

Remember guys, there's a hide post option. Don't feed the troll etc.

it'll be a once a month thing so it shouldn't be hard to keep up with (i hope). if you don't have time to make a submission you can still rate everyone elses stuff

keep an eye out on the 1st of March!

thats a lovely bit of taxidermy

First of every month a theme is selected and everyone cooks something to fit that theme. Post pics/verticals/instructions/videos/etc to the monthly thread and people can rate and critique them.
There's more info in the link in the OP post, you can see what past threads were like.

Just ignore the shitposting and focus on the OC.

I'm down. I entered for the first time last year with an eyepatch identifier, and I had a lot of fun. I'm working 2 jobs right now, but this sounds like it would be easier to squeeze into my schedule seeing as how I'd have an entire month. Biweekly might actually be a little better as a month sounds like a long time.

Ill ignore your moma fool

What's wrong with Moma?

Their food is overpriced like in most museums, but it's pretty good.

I would be involved but it would be nice to work out a more fair way to judge, that shit got pretty annoying last year to the point i said fuck it.

do you have any ideas on improving the rating system? what did you feel were the pros and cons?

I was going to just go with the previous format but im open to suggestions

btw im not gonna tally the points at the end because i cant be arsed to keep score for a whole month

bump for more ideas/suggestions

Bump. I'd play this game.

I would participate. A more casual, bi-weekly or monthly challenge would be fun.

I'm definitely down for more challenges, but is bubble not doing the challenge this year? I'd worry about this interfering with a couple challenge weeks in March and April.

yes im in.

I am so glad to be seeing this thread Borneo. I was literally about to post a thread to gauge if there was interest for the long running challenge this year..

>more blogging

Would there be interest for it? It's a huge time/energy sink and I'm not sure after the horror show of last year that the community would want that? If there's enough demand I can run it, but I'd want to be sure people would be into it.

Kek. It sounds like she'd be interested in your OCD tallying skills.

i am in, sounds fun

I'll take that as a compliment ;)

You buncha cheating fucks

People on this board who can't cook get so frustrated by seeing people who can.

I'm interested in joining.
Hopefully I wont tard out on the last fucking theme like last year ;_;

I had a modified formula of the rating system in one of the earlier threads from the 2016 challenge that lessened the volatility of self-votes to create a more streamline average. I'll try to find it after work and post it.

>self-votes

I'd say troll-votes were a bigger problem last year, and don't really see anything that can be done about that.

Fuck off Lyin' Tom

Troll votes and overall overwhelming aggression/negativity were the main issues last year.

Please end your life before this shit starts again

I think acknowledging and paying attention to the trolls is what made things worse. Just ignore them. This is Veeky Forums. The kiddies are going to continue their epin trolling, but if we ignore it, they will eventually go away.

Fuck you. You can't just lie and cheat your way through life you son of a bitch

Last year I was in a bad place and probably gave them too much attention. *shrugs* Everyone is human.

It fixes troll votes too. Any type of vote manipulation, it de-escalates the volatility for a more accurate score.

If you can post the formula I can run it with last years score data, to compare if you want.

I wasn't blaming you. You do a great job, and we all appreciate your hard work

Thanks! I appreciate you saying that.

But I was mostly saying that as a curiosity, so see how the different way of calculating score would help :)

Be a few hours, still at the office. Tonight sometime.

I think with the state of the board and how the challenge went last year smaller challenges once a month or once every two weeks would probably be the better way to do it. Something more laid back than the large challenge with prizes at stake.

I have a theory to fix the judging trolling.

Simply if you want to be a judge you have to have a form of registration. Like say in the registration process you are required to take a proof pic with your hand in front of your stove or something to cut down on people trying to vote multiple times, then that person gets a tripcode to vote with. Maybe sounds crazy but I see not many other ways because even a poll site that allows 1 vote per IP is easily trollable.

feel free to play with that idea

That's one of the few ways that seems somewhat foolproof... except that we'll end up with maybe 3-4 people actually voting.

DESU i think that voting/rewards is sort of pointless. A general "here's the challenge, cook, community comments informally" rather than a vote-vote is better, because this is an anonymous board filled with trolls.

Just ignore the trolls. Who gives a shit about troll votes if it's all just for fun and there are no longer any prizes?

I agree.

Also having shorter rounds, without having ongoing trips/identities would solve a large part of the hurr "lyin' tom" durr "yellow mug" crap that plagued last year.

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If it stops being a contest its just another post your meal thread circle jerk and I know myself and others would lose interest and motivation to give a shit. I do agree there should be no prizes but voting is what made it fun until the troll voting took off.

How about a format like this?

Round theme announced 1st of month.
2 weeks after dishes get judged.
Winner gets placed on a roster.
End of year, epic 12 challenger showdown between winners.
Grand prize.

...

I am in favor of the voting and no prizes. I just think the more the trolling is ignored, the less that it will happen. Last year everyone kept feeding and that is why it never stopped. And if a couple troll votes end up getting counted, then who gives a shit if the whole thing is just for fun with no reward.

What if someone wins two months?

Winners can compete each month, but cannot win. If they took first second place would advance to the roster.

I always thought it'd be cool to do a sub $X.00 for two challenge.

Go to the grocery with $X, walk out with everything and do the best you can, then be judged.

Welcome back bubs I was worried you'd given up on this place! I thought long and hard about the things that happened last year and figured this would be a much easier and less stressful format to maintain.
I'll shoot you an email when I get back home

You won't have to worry about that anymore :)

That sounds legit actually. A unique identifier for both participants and voters. We can at least run with this idea for the first month to see if people are comfortable with it.

This honestly. Low quality shitposts aren't worth reading through and they certainly aren't worth the time taken to respond. There's even a hide post button to make it easy.

I tell ya what, what made me drop out of the game last year was someone putting in a last minute entry that was just cut up pre-fabricated food. Then they got one 10/10 vote (self vote I'm sure). I think they tried to fix it in the process of the next few rounds, but it just really torqued me that someone would actually cheat to win a fucking apron or some shit. Some people are just lame.
Not blaming BB at all. Don't take it personal.
So, rant concluded, I like the idea of a casual monthly contest with no prize given. Seems like it would be a lot more friendly.

That would be pretty cool, not sure how it would translate for participants living in different parts of the world considering exchange rates and such

People might not be around at the end of the year for that

Could also be a troll vote. Don't let em get to you. Might be a good idea to force IDs for voters then. Moving that to the top of the priority list

Am I the only one who visits ck just to watch at food pics while eating? I can't even fry an egg desu

I'd be interested especially if the window is that big so i have time to plan things and work it into my work schedule.

I fucked up pretty bad the one year I was in but I learned from my mistakes, time for redemption

I dont even really eat eggs much less cook them. I'd have an idea on what to make but I probably would just give it to my family in the end.

>translate for participants living in different parts of the world
That'd only feed into the creativity and culture, right?

Would love to participate, perhaps the theme could be something like sous vide to see how far we could push it.

Not everyone has one of those friendo and they are too expensive to buy just for this shit.

Dude you can just poorfag sous vide by buying cookable pouches and throwing them in boiling water, funny enough its what shitty fast food does to cook pulled pork and some marinated meats.

I will send the winner a fresh chicken bake from costco

Found my old post regarding the better score scaling formula. It was created in order to thwart people who submitted their entries last minute and got a single high vote which made them skyrocket in points.

The original formula: TS (Total Score) / TV (Total Vote)
The modified formula: TS (Total Score) / TV (Total Vote) / 2 (Limiter) = AS (Adjusted Score) + TV (Total Vote)

[ Original Formula Example ]

John has his dish voted on by 10 people. His total score is 120.
Using the original formula of TS / TV, his final adjusted score becomes 16.

Jill has her dish voted on by 1 person. Her total score is 20.
Using the original formula of TS / TV, her final adjusted score becomes 20.

[ Modified Formula Example ]

John has his dish voted on by 10 people. His total score is 120.
Using the modified formula of TS / TV / 2 + TV, his final adjusted score becomes 16.

Jill has her dish voted on by 1 person. Her total score is 20.
Using the modified formula of TS / TV / 2 + TV, her final adjusted score becomes 11.

------------

The formula to my recollection scales very well is the varying amount of scores. It might be something to consider.
If you're still interested in running the numbers Bubble, your thoughts would be very welcome on the subject.

In it to win it. Again!

But what if two guys have the same average but the one guy wins because he had one extra person vote for him? Personally that kind of system sounds unfair. A better solution would be to have a deadline for submissions but a longer deadline (maybe 24 hours if needbe) for judging so more people get a say in decisions

>But what if two guys have the same average but the one guy wins because he had one extra person vote for him?

It's by no means a perfect system, it's simply causing an inverse of the original problem which allowed intentionally late entries to gain an upper leg on entries submitted in a timely and non-manipulated fashion. Even the original would be prone to variance if two entries were submitted at the same time but someone decided to opt out of voting for one of them.

If the direction of these challenges follows the same voting format, I would still have to recommend the modified version to limit the last minute manipulation. The idea of giving a longer deadline only fixes one part of the problem. If again someone voted for one entry and didn't vote for the other even given the extended time, there would still be a scoring variance.

Have seen the past challenges and was never interested in participating. But I'd be down to show some fools up. I spent the last six years cooking is various kitchens just to show yall up.

I was referring to the monetary amount. £1 gets you 6 eggs in England but here it gets you three times that amount.

I look forward to your submissions!

This could be your chance to get started!

Yeah, nice food posts of your heroic creations asshat. Or are you trying to keep it undercover before the competition.

How about a (Not) Pet Food Round?

I dont take pictures of my food. Mostly because Im not a pretentious douche bag. Also because i dont have time to pull my phone out before i hand the plate to the server. I got ten other tickets waiting.

>he owns a phone with a camera

Having a deadline for submissions and then an extra period for voting would aleviate the issue about late submissions. That way every single entry would get judged.

Only works with a 100% vote rate for each submission. If people withhold votes it would have a detrimental effect on score. The voting system as a whole needs to be changed.

Perhaps a 3 week submission period with a 1 week voting period

That was the cutest submission

What alternatives would you suggest?

looking forward to charting this bitch up