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H. G. Muller wrote on Sat, Oct 21, 2023 05:15 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 04:37 PM:

I am not sure editors should be treated different than others. I am an editor, and Jean-Louis is not, and yet I see no reason why my opinion would carry higher weight than his.

I also don't think it is a good idea to 'penalize' self-voters by reducing the weight of their vote on other people's games (which is basically an unrelated issue). If we don't want self voting, we can just forbid it; that is more effective than merely discouraging it through some arbitrary penalty. But self voting can be useful, because inventors presumably know their own inventions better than anyone else, and can indicate to others what they feel are their best designs that way. But that purpose would be completely defeated if inventors are encouraged to vote for all their inventions. So we should not encourage that by making it a good way to get those closer to the top of the list. A modest amount of self votes is very helpful, voting for all is as useless as voting for none. There should not be any penalty for the desired behavior.

Anyway, the trial page I made already does the dual scoring. But it always sorts by the weighted total. I guess the easiest way to make this user-selectable is just have two versions of the script, where clicking a link or button would navigate you from one to the other. (It could be the same script with a different CGI argument, which then decides what to use as sort key.) Only slight adaptations would be necessary to alter the weighting formula.