Attached Link: Original Posts from: Dear Tim: An Open Letter

In hopes to keep this a productive and positive discussion, I am going to move the suggestions that /P and I have made to this thread so we can discuss any proposed solutions to the AOY voting:

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Re: Dear Tim: An Open Letter by Penguinisto on 12/23/02 11:07

In all honesty, perhaps the vote should've been left alone this go 'round. Mistake or no mistake, there is a credibility issue here.

Current crisis aside, if you're going to vote on it internally, then perhaps members at random could be chosen?

I don't see how it could be more fair than this:

Each member gets only one vote (and to cross-check, each IP address gets only one vote), but no member with less than 30 days of membership will be allowed to vote. This prevents instant clone accounts to vote with, and existing clones from one IP.

There are also lists of known open proxies (they ain't hard to find) whose IP address blocks you can incorporate entirely into a "no-vote" list as well. It can even be done in CIDR notation to save you a few lines of typing.

In either case, it will take some work to do, but if you are interested in making for a fair system, that would be one way to do it.

However, since you'd already opened the doors to public voting, then perhaps you should let the vote run its course.

/P

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Re: Dear Tim: An Open Letter by CyberStretch on 12/23/02 11:28

/P's suggestions about trying to "lock down" the voting are pudent. So I will not reiterate them.

It appears that the voting goes:

Galleries -> Hot20 -> AOM -> AOY; with the H20 and AOM decided by the members, correct?

If this is the case, why not have AOY be decided by a cumulative annual total of the AOM votes with the PTB stepping in only when there is a tie?

All this would take is a database backend or other accounting-type setup to add up the individual AOM votes for an entire year and, based upon the number of votes for any given artist, the one who has had the most AOM votes in the year wins AOY.

It seems to me that this would be a fair methodology of determining an AOY recipient by the members without the potential for abuse nor allowing the bias of the site/PTB to affect the outcome; unless the rare chance that two artists receive the exact same amount of AOM votes in any given year.