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Recommending the same popular things to everyone is a bad recommendation system.

> as long as the spam issue can be solved

At the time of writing, Adolf Hitler is #1 on the leaderboard with Elo 1754.

6 minutes later -- my leaderboard shows oxygen at the top, and hitler is not in the top 100.

5 minutes later, it's Hitler #1 again

And democracy - "I love democracy!" - at #15

Something must have broke/exploited. Hitler is still #1 with over 2000 matches but Baseball is in #2 with over 100M matches. The next 20 are 1000-2000 matches.

Now he has -700 Elo. Did good faith just win or did the owner of the website intervene?

#589 -12579 Vladimir Putin #588 149 Adolf Hitler #587 658 Satan

Considering this thing ranks Adolph Hitler as the best "thing" currently, above other things such as sexual intercourse, the entire Earth, and Oxygen, I don't think I would trust any product recommendation such a system would spit out.

Well that's because of spam. If you ask people to genuinely make a bunch of 1v1 comparisons from first hand experience, vs say, blogspam of top 10 ____ products lists, or recommendations of people who have only tried 1 option...