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| CR FAQ |
strong>How your total score is calculated.
Your U4prez score is the result of two components; your average rating, and Candidate Rank or "CR".
The lifeblood of politics is money. Money comes from supporters. Your U4prez ranking is largely dependent on the number of supporters you have. And the Candidate Rank of those supporters. This Candidate Rank is the best indicator of how well you would perform in a real election. A candidate who comments and debates issues, who has a lot of supporters, and many visits to his platform will receive a high candidate rank.
When that candidate supports you, your candidate rank goes up.
Sometimes you will become frustrated with a candidate who comments on your profile. You can block that candidate. But if you block too many candidates, with a high CR, your CR will go down.
How does this relate to real politics?
The more supporters a real candidate has, the more money he can raise.
Average rating is what the members of U4prez have rated your platform. The rating shown is 75% of what your raw average rating total. Thus the highest average rating you can get is 7.5000.
The other 25% of your score comes from CR.
Candidate Rank is a measure of how well you run your political campaign. This is reflected in the CR portion of your score and as mentioned, represents 25% of your total score. Candidate Rank is updated from time to time, and not reflected immediately. The CR algorithm is made up things like:
How often you comment.
The unique nature of your comments
How many people have visited your platform page
The number of supporters you campaign has.
Beware! If you alienate a large number of your supporters, they can leave your campaign, and lower your score. There are other less obvious factors that also go in to your score. These factors are not made public to avoid attempted vote manipulation.
Runoffs
Runoffs are our Primary races. Each week the top 4 (most active) candidates from each party compete for the primary win. At the end of the year, the three candidates with the most primary wins, face off in the General Election. The selection for runoffs is entirely automated. The system uses the CR algorithm to determine which candidates were most active the previous 7 days. Most active relates to campaigning. Candidates who have been commenting, rating other candidates, and adding supporters to their profiles are considered by the program to be actively campaigning. Once you have been in a weekly primary, you cannot be in the next weeks primary. This is because of the extra front page time a candidate gets by just qualifying for a runoff. To level the playing field and give everyone a chance, you are ineligible the following week for the primary. |
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