So what is MoéMash?
MoéMash is an idea I had a few months ago, while watching The Social Network. In that movie, Mark Zuckerberg created a website called Facemash, which was basically a hot-or-not site that used Elo rankings to allow people to rank Harvard co-eds.
That might have been at least a little unethical, since the participants on the site didn't really have a choice about how they wanted to be there or not. But if we bring this into the 2D world, many of those issues go away. Moé contests have existed for a while now, and as far as I can tell, none of the participants have complained.
MoéMash is a little different from existing Moé contests. Whereas a contest like Saimoe captures a single moment in time, MoéMash is intended to be an ongoing ranking system. While we'll always have a leader, we'll never be able to crown a single champion.
MoéMash is really dependent on the support of our users. Without users ranking the characters, the site won't work. Without users adding new characters, the site won't grow. What happens next is up to you - I really have no idea what will happen.
I would like to thank the Anonymous who runs http://www.animesaimoe.org/, both for inspiration, and for putting up the image I used to seed this site.
If you have any comments, questions, bug reports, or ideas on how to improve the accouracy of the site's data, please post here in the comments. Thanks!
