(CLOSED) Harry Potter and the Secrets of Nofap

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But i want Gryffindoor

 

Mimbulus mimbletonia

 

So the formula is min(badge, days_of_month).

Not the best scheme imo. If someone relapses every day except the 31st they turn in 1 point for the house. But so does someone who is clean for the entire month except the 30th.

I think it would be better to add a point for every clean day.

 

There are multiple ways to do this. I think the best one would be to add a point iff the majority of students of the house survives the day. That way larger houses won't get an advantage.
The price for this is that people will have to update frequently.

 

So it's something like 127 points for me if I get to the new year?
Anyway checking for day 107

 

Wait a sec with the voting @im'possible. Let's consider all viable ideas first. I think it useful to list requirements from the point system first. As I see it, the system should.

1. reward "good behavior" as often as possible to be motivating for everyone, not just those who do well
2. ignore the house distribution because clearly some houses will have much more members than others.
3. ignore challengers' activity prior to joining because a veteran with a huge streak could ruin the game for others even before it starts.

The implications of those requirements are, probably:

1. House points should be updated every day
2. the actual amount of points awarded will be some statistic computed from how members of each house did on that day
3. You're gonna get a huge headache trying to do this by hand It should be done automatically - I can help there.

 

And by the way the official Harry Potter site has a Sorting Hat quiz too. Maybe use that instead of the Buzzfeed one.

https://my.wizardingworld.com/sorting-hat

 

The more I think about it the more it seems a bad idea to use a sorting hat quiz at all. The whole challenge would be much more sensible if the houses were equally sized. No matter what clever statistic is used, if we'll have 50 gryffindors and 4 hufflepuffs the challenge will suck.

 

In summary, this is the House management policy I recommend:

• A House can GAIN members by
  • joining - but only if the House is OPEN
    • a House is OPEN if it has no more members than any other House, otherwise the House is CLOSED
      • e.g. if Slytherin, Hufflepuff, Gryffindor all have 8 members and Ravenclaw has 7 members, the only OPEN House is Ravenclaw, all other Houses are CLOSED
      • e.g. if all Houses have 14 members, they are all OPEN
• A House can LOSE members by
  • a member asking to be removed from the challenge
    
  • a member being kicked out for inactivity

Note that the only way for a House to gain members is joining. Specifically, members cannot ask to be moved to another House - that would make management even more complicated.

To make it fair we should start from scratch and assign current members new Houses in the order of their join times. Meaning @Im'possible picks first, then @fg4795, then @ItsSeal, etc. If someone doesn't want to join any of the Houses being offered (i.e. the OPEN Houses at that moment) they will have to wait till the next round.

 

Very interesting.

 

Great! I need a couple of days to get it working but essentially it will be a web app that will allow you to compute house points for the day with a click or two and maybe generate a report to be copied and pasted into this thread.

 

I'd like to brake the Barrier and join Hufflepuff.