Another tie breaker lol

[shazza-018.livejournal.com]

We still need a tie breaking despite the tie breaker so I'm doing another poll (again choose "I'm nominated" if one of these is your icon):
4.[Poll #1929270]

Comments

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm new to this community and voting this week for the first time, so do feel free to ignore me. But I notice that in previous rounds you have asked people to vote by expressing their preferences in order, and awarding more points for a first preference than a second preference, and so on. That's also the way I've seen voting done in most other icon communities I've been a part of. I was quite surprised to see the voting for this week being done as a simple poll, and I think all these tie-breakers are showing why it doesn't really work. Preferential voting should mean it doesn't happen anything like as often.

[shazza-018.livejournal.com]

Some people think polls are alot easier to vote with thats why I used them but never again will I. I was just experiment and following advice from participants of the community. Your right Preferential voting is alot better, just takes more time for me to count the votes but still it's better.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can see that, from both the voters' point of view and yours. It was definitely worth experimenting! But glad to hear you'll be going back to preferential voting - and hopefully everyone will understand why now.

[shazza-018.livejournal.com]

I will explain what happened in a post hopefully people are cool with it.

[fueschgast]

You could combine polls and points by making 4-part polls. You'd still have to add the points up, but at least it would be faster than having to look through comments.

[shazza-018.livejournal.com]

I can't see people's preferences that way. like what they post 1st,2nd,3rd and 4th. That's the way I do the points (4 points for 1st, 3 for 2nd, 2 for 3rd and 1 for 4th).

[fueschgast]

No, I mean you could make a poll that's in 4 parts. The first has the headline "first favorite icon" or something, lists all entered icons and has radio buttons. The other parts are the same, except that they're names "2nd favorite" and so on.

[shazza-018.livejournal.com]

I see what u mean but that would be way more work than asking people to comment with their votes.