bclaytonphoto opened this issue on Apr 24, 2007 · 16 posts
bclaytonphoto posted Tue, 24 April 2007 at 5:26 PM
Just to be clear...
I sent IM's to everyone who entered this month to try to get more folks to vote..
It seems every month we get 30 or more entries, and maybe 10 votes..which is rather pityful.
I was not aware that a change had been made to the system. No one bothered to tell us they had changed this.
It's been reported to the programmers. I haven't heard back from them yet..
I apologise for this unfortunate turn in the events, but I can assure you that no one from our team was aware of this until I opened the voting process..
There is another way we could conduct the voting..I used to do this when I was the Terragen moderator..
We can vote publicly in the forum..
You would vote for your top three choices by Number..
Such as...
Each vote would have a point value attached to it..
a first place vote is worth 5
second 3
third one
it would create some extra work for me...But..if this would be considered more fair by the general membership..I'm Ok with that..
There are a couple of interesting things I've found with this method..
First, it almost eliminates there being a tie..
Second, I've seen an entry win, because it got more second place votes!!
Third, it does create some accountability..you have to make your choices in public.
Some people maight not be comfortable with this..Once you get used to it..it's no big deal..
To be perfectly honest, I prefer the voting on the contest page because it is much easier for me to manage.. the forum voting method can be time consuming If you get 20 members voting..it takes some time to add things up.
So..think about it and if there is really an interest in changing things, we can start a thread to consider this..
maybe the programmers will just fix the damned thing....