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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Mar 27, 2015 12:15 AM UTC:
I'm definitely in favor of quality control. The question is whether that
is the responsibility of the editors or the creators. This site has taken a
laissez faire approach to this, placing that responsibility on the
creators. Some people care to create the best Chess variants they can, and
others care to churn out one game after another without considering
quality.

The Recognized Variants was an early effort to direct visitors to some of
the better-regarded and higher quality variants. This mainly reflected the
opinions of Hans Bodlaender and David Howe. I contributed a bit to this and
then opened it up to the larger body of users by conducting polls for
adding new variants to the list.

I have since abandoned adding to the Recognized Variants list in favor of
writing a script for letting all users pick their favorite variants and
then ranking them by popularity. I favor this for being more democratic.
You can help promote the variants you consider best by picking them as your
favorites. And if your favorite variants include some of your own, it's
perfectly alright for you to favorite them. I have favorited some of my own
games, and I consider favoriting your own games as a sign that you think
well of your own work.

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