Captain Paradox
2004-02-04 19:56:55 |
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My pending problems (4) have stayed at their queue postition for two weeks or so, except for 2 which have moved back.
This is really me asking for an inside surveillance job. Have you Journeymen noticed if the rated problems are making it through to flooble kind of slowly? I (being a Student) don't have the position to check.
Also, what on earth is the queue weight about? |
Tristan
2004-02-04 20:31:07 |
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Queue weight, or QW was also asked about here. Basically, all puzzles are sorted first by QW, and puzzles with the same QW are sorted by date submitted. Each person has QW1 for the earliest submitted two puzzles, QW2 for the next 2 and so on.
The way the "approximate queue position" is calculated, the numbers don't really tell that much. It does not show the speed, just the position (it might jump forward some days and move back others). The speed is slow because the QW makes your puzzle seem further than it really is sometimes. Also, we limit the number of puzzles by two per weekday, one per day on weekends.
This topic has been thoroughly discussed. Just look at the long thread here or the even longer thread here. |
TomM
2004-02-06 22:09:13 |
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The QW was instituted after one member submitted a huge pile of puzzles at once. It allowed all of the other problems to slip past some of his, so that it would not take a year or more for other posters' problems to appear.
Unfortunately, other heavy submitters' puzzles began to back up as well. Since their oldest puzzles are now far older than any others, most of thi time the queue has eight to ten puzzles by the same five or six "super-contributors" and everyone else's are almost as stagnant as before QW was instituted. If your approximate queue position is over fifty, you should probably add another 100-150 for the QW 2+ puzzles that will jump ahead during the nightly re-calcs before your puzzle approaches the "hot ten" |
Sam
2004-02-07 00:55:36 |
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Yes indeed... My closest problem (QW 1) has been sitting at 59 for well over two weeks now - it's mighty frustrating. There have been many discussions on whether the current system is the best possible one, but it's very difficult to change the status quo so I doubt anything can be done. You just have to be patient. |
