Self-adapting sites not based on "rating" (Score 1)

Here are some samples of self-adaptive sites. The first four are fairly traditional and fall into the "ranking" or "rating" sense. The last three are more unique. Each is a subsites of Dan Zen.

Tower of Babel: words never said before are whispered into the wind and carried to the tower of babel. You can play God as you climb the tower and vote favorably for the words that "move" you. They will rise towards the top. Ones that you don't like go towards the bottom and eventually into the ground never to be read again.

Hip Cats are online people that visitors create with questions and answers so you can talk to them. And among many other things, they can be rated and make the scene if they have more than 5 ratings with greater than 5/10 rate. A Flexible threshold might be beneficial here but makes it less of a game, doesn't it.

Prediction Train: people leave predictions and if ten people vote to remove the prediction it gets removed. You can read the removed predictions - would you believe the traffic is higher!

Grim Reaper's Age Guesser asks thirteen questions to guess people's ages. If a question guesses within five years then its relevance factor is increased by one else it is decreased by one. Its been running since '96 and has come up with peculiar results.

Gorgolon: an underwater civilization where you are requested to give feedback to an artificial intelligence called Origin 5 as to how the society is functioning. There is a game involved where out of all the people playing, you must spot the AI. The leaders of this game are rewarded by being the only ones who can read what people have been writing to Origin 5. The site sets up its own prize.

Password Paradox: a game where you guess passwords to advance through a security system to gain control of special documents worth a billion dollars. The cool thing is, (although people don't know it) is that the pool of possible passwords are made up of other people's guesses. The pool is reset each time someone makes it through - so it is never the same twice. A self-adapting game.

Salamander: a spy game where you go into a park after the Salamander, master of disguise and enemy agent. You choose a disguise from six hats, six facial features, and six accessories. You are given tip as to what the Salamander is wearing, for example, "the Salamander is wearing a Chinese hat, a goatee and is flying a kite." You go into Bullseye Park and if you see someone wearing your clue you've caught the Salamander! Of course, you might be wearing someone else's clue and could be the Salamander yourself. Again, the game always changes and is self-modifying depending on input.

There is something beautiful about a self-adapting system and even more so if it gives the power to the people and creates less work for the Webmaster!

Dan Zen
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