Hello everyone.
The question has been bought up about how best to implement the voting system for the photography challenge.
As AceAceBaby mentions, only the first few favourites amount any number of votes, and often there are a few that get none in each competetion, usually.
To have a poll that allows multiple votes, each with an equal value would be problematic, I think. I'll quote myself from the other thread to stop me actually having to think...
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Hi.
There is a reason why it is set to one vote per person, mathematically speaking.
If people were to be allowed, say two votes each, and there were, for example three entries, A, B and C.
If ten people think of A as their favourite and C as their second favourite, and so vote A & C, and ten people think B as their favourite and C as the second favourite and so vote B & C, then A receives ten votes, B receives ten votes, and C wins with 20 votes, despite nobody actually thinking it is the best picture.
I know that is a rather simplistic example, but I learned at school that it is an unfair way of polling to find a favourite.
The other fair way to do it would be as Dimrill suggests, with a Eurovision style points system. I'd be happy to do this, but we wouldn't be able to have an actual integrated poll, as although you can set polls to have X number selectable options, you cannot set an order of preference as far as I know.
With this in mind, Dimrill suggested Eurovision style voting, where we could
all dress up in sequins award our top three(?) or five(?) entries points in order of preference (so, award your favourite five points, second favourite four points, third three points, etc...) Unless Grim... knows of a way to insert numerous polls into a single thread (GRIIIIMMMM...??!!!) it would mean me compiling people's votes from their posts in the thread (where I'd ask everyone to put their votes in bold, or red, or something, just so that I could easily see the information among any chatter), the only other option being to actually option three or five separate threads with polls, which I think would be far too messy on the boards...
So... I will list these options in a poll. Vote for your favourite option in the poll, please. The poll will run for four days and end on Sunday at midnight. If anyone has any further ideas on how to run an effective poll please say so and I will add that option to the poll. Because of this you may change your voted for option at any time during the duration of the poll.
OK, I think that was just about everything. i am sorry that the above post may seem a bit long, but I wanted to try and be as clear as possible.
Poll ends at 22:45 on Sunday.