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06-30-2017 at 12:01 PM
Dear Community,
The Dispute System is in its last phase of private testing and should be coming online soon.
As we all know this is going to generate a lot of conversation, some of which will be contentious. It is important that the discussions remain civil and as fact-based as possible.
In all regards, Twin Galaxies appreciates all interest from the community that chooses to take the time to help maintain the integrity of the score database!
Please always keep in mind that Twin Galaxies will view a dispute claim as a very serious matter, and deliberate abuse or misuse of this upcoming system will be met with a harsh administrative response.
And now to a partial preview -
A DISPUTE column will be added to the database, allowing every individual score in the to have a clickable link that will provide a dispute claim form to be filled out and submitted.
A member must have a minimum of 4000 Credibility Points to file a dispute claim. (This number is subject to change at admins discretion.)
Filling out this form represents a formal and very public claim made by you that this particular score in the Twin Galaxies database is invalid and that you have sufficient and objective evidence to support your claim.
Once you submit your dispute claim, it will be placed into the dispute voting area where the community will discuss, debate, potentially add further evidence or refute evidence provided, and vote on your claim.
All VERIFIED members can vote on a dispute claim once the claim has been established. There is no minimum CR requirement to vote.
Your claim will remain open until it achieves enough voting power to close the vote and trigger a score removal recommendation.
When a score removal recommendation is achieved, Twin Galaxies Admin will be notified (as well as all voters) and TG Admin will review all of the presented evidence and supporting discussion.
If after reviewing the evidence, Twin Galaxies Admin agrees with the removal recommendation, the disputed score will be removed.
Scores (and their associated dispute discussions) that have been removed will be placed into a separate area for reference. No information will be lost.
If after reviewing the evidence, Twin Galaxies Admin does not agree with the removal recommendation, the disputed score will not be removed, and the dispute claim will be reopened to allow it to continue to gather additional evidence and further votes until it triggers another score removal recommendation event.
The dispute claim voting / review process escalates indefinitely until a claim becomes compelling enough for Twin Galaxies Admin to agree and remove the score. The dispute claim can never go away.
To make sure that a dispute claim has the best chance of being successful it is important that the dispute provides as much objective and compelling evidence as possible.
Some very important items to note:
There is no CR / SP reward or penalty associated with the dispute system. For this part of TG, TG wants participants that are only interested in pursuit of database integrity for the betterment of all, and not necessarily for direct personal TG account gain.
TG will likely eventually display profile statistics regarding number of successful dispute claims accomplished.
Since a dispute conversation, once started, remains open forever until the score is removed, a database score with an active dispute essentially has the equivalent of an "asterix." This is a powerful thing and should be considered with care.
The "asterix factor" is one of the main reasons that only higher Credibility TG Members will be allowed to initiate dispute claims. TG feels that members with elevated CR have demonstrated an adjudication willingness to productively participate over a long period, and have shown a degree of care for the growth and well-being of Twin Galaxies.
TG also believes that higher CR members are less likely to initiate unwarranted dispute claims. TG will need to see if this belief is valid.
If a TG member who has less than 4000 CR wants to initiate a dispute claim, they simply can not. They must convince / ask a TG member with the required CR to file the claim and become responsible for starting that claim, then the lower CR member can vote on the claim and provide evidence.
**SPECIAL NOTE - Admin will typically be keeping a general eye on all dispute cases (whether notified or not) and there will be cases where a dispute is filed that has incontrovertible supportive evidence. In some of those cases, admin may automatically agree to the dispute claim and END THE DISPUTE VOTING PROCESS EARLY.
**These cases will likely be disputes involving technical site error correction or score submissions that mistakenly were accepted on improper tracks, (PAL vs. NTSC) etc. These cases may involve score removal OR moving a score to a proper category.
This process should be fairly straightforward.
For the first time since TG was created, score disputes will now be permanently tied to the scores themselves. So now not only the evidence and adjudication of a performance will stay with a score, but also any post adjudication dispute history of a score will stay too - essentially keeping ALL scores in the Twin Galaxies database under trackable, referential review.
Over time we believe that all these systems working together will be able to continually improve database integrity.
Once we activate the Dispute system, we will see how it goes and make any needed changes from there.
Thank you.
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