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I gave a teacher a Hot vote but no chili pepper showed up. What gives?

April 26, 2017chili gave gives hot Pepper showed Teacher vote

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I gave a teacher a Hot vote but no chili pepper showed up. What gives?

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The chili pepper is based on the SUM of the “hot” and “not hot” votes, where hot is +1 and not hot is -1. A chili pepper only shows up if the sum is positive. If the sum is zero or negative, no chili pepper is displayed. In addition, we display negative sums as zero, because we’re nice guys.