Hildur K. wrote:

> Well, these are only my thoughts, but I´m sure there must be a way to make a
> fair voting system.


Hi,

I guess Steve and Colin are already trying to work something out. Web 
applications can be a pain to modify.

I got bitten by the same "voting bug" over at irtc.animations :) i guess 
some changes are indeed necessary. We had five entries this round, i 
tested voting, and presto: now i'm not even on the ranking page any more 
:) because voting on one's own entry isn't possible (which is OK), but 
with nobody else having (a chance to have) voted, this means my (0/0/0) 
doesn't even get listed anymore except on the "all entries" page...

Two thoughts:

1) either all entrants must complete their voting on all entries for the 
points system to work, or none at all - that's where "panel judges" 
become necessary. A partial vote obviously puts the entrant voters into 
disadvantage.

2) Voting needs a second timeframe (deadline thru deadline + 1 week 
sounds reasonable, i guess) so that the line-up doesn't change after 
voting has started.

Well, if 2) gets implemented, it shouldn't be a problem to have another 
voting period on the last topics by simply tweaking the timeframe's 
end-date...

-M

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