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Re:Winning a London Garden Allotment by robocat on Saturday July 30, 2022 @07:57PM (#32291611)
>> and the worst-kept 20% will immediately lose the plot

Which is stack-ranking - fire the lowest x% of performers every year. Yeah nahhh, no problems with that idea, nope.

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Re:Winning a London Garden Allotment by londons_explore on Saturday July 30, 2022 @08:16PM (#32291734)
Except you have a judging team do it, based on published criteria, rather than all the participants ranking eachother. A bit like a school exam (where students are usually ranked - curve fitted - to eliminate variable difficulty of the questions that year)
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Re:Winning a London Garden Allotment by namibj on Saturday July 30, 2022 @11:25PM (#32292862)
School stack taking is even worse.
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