Thanks a lot for the feedback, I definitely get the sense that the forced comparison wasn't as great. I thought it was novel and had two big advantages: first,

Thanks a lot for the feedback, I definitely get the sense that the forced comparison wasn't as great. I thought it was novel and had two big advantages: first, that it really mean you couldn't spam the voting mechanism to get your favorite up there, and second, I could just store the rating in the DB rather than a list of who has voted for what; it was a lot simpler. However, I've heard from enough people that the experience wasn't great and the stats back it up. Up or down it is.