Posting to subscribe. Just a few questions/comments/concerns:
Question
When does this end? If I can throw out a time, I'd ask for at least a few weeks, as my semester is ending and finals week (this week) will keep me from testing anything.
--EDIT-- Just saw the poll (lrn2read), and I think the end of December is doable for voting purposes. Thanks.
Question
Should we even be
allowed to vote for ourselves, if that vote doesn't count? If not, then I already see a few people whose votes means nothing, unfortunately.
Also, is there one single file where we can download all the entries? Might make it easier to force us to test something other than what we (eyecandy) like.
Comment
Just a note, my name is misspelled on the Poll; it should read
K-y-r-b-i-0, if you please.
. Also, the "person" link on my entry, the Nightwalker, claims that I'm not registered?
Comment
Also, I didn't know you were taking the time to set up the entries all artistically like that... You could've saved time and made it more of personal challenge to make one ourselves (according to your specifications of size & style, of course). I wouldn't have minded.
Concern
Looking at the number of entrants in abstract (in the original thread), I was vaguely worried. Now, however, I'm really concerned that we're not going to have a very fair contest. I mean, if each person has only One vote... Well, I don't know how many people normally vote in these things, but more than likely even if 15-20 people (a decent number) vote, some entries will be entirely ignored, and you'll have an entry winning with "3" votes or some such.
If I may make one of three suggestions for voting method (sorry to not bring it up earlier, but I wasn't sure how exactly it was intended to go), I think it might really help this contest out and make things more interesting for everyone.
(Yes, I know we've already just started; however, if need be, we can just transfer the votes over to the new way, or whatever is necessary. Only 7 have voted as of the time of this post, after all).
One (1): | giving voters the option to vote More than Once (i.e. at least 2 votes per voter, perhaps even 3), as in the First and Second Hero Contests at Wc3C (except perhaps not allowing those 2/3 votes to go to the same person, as this could result in quite an overflow by lazy voters ). This way, it allows for people's preference slightly more. |
Two (2): | setting up a sort of "elimination method", whereby the contest can be, in a sense, truncated to deal with certain discrete pairs. This way, each hero would have to be seriously considered (a must if we're going for accountable voting), and 'the cream will rise to the top' as they say. |
Three (3): | the Schulze method for voting (Wikipedia article, Implementation, and Done in Wc3C's 3rd Hero Contest). This is an incredibly-useful method that, with a bit of programming knowledge (or just bugging Vex for his implementation), could be used. It works really well as a "preference-based model", whereby voters can vote using their actual preferences, tiering up the entries in order of which they'd prefer, and the voting algorithm does all the math that ends up with the most preferential submission. It was successful enough that we used it for the 3rd & 4th Hero Contest, and the 1st & 2nd Race-building Contest. Awexome! |
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Anyway, just some thoughts. Excited to see this go up, and (after finals) I am anxious to test & vote. Good luck, everyone!