Thoughts about Voting for next time

[kerravonsen]

As you may have noticed, it was practically impossible to give second-places this time due to there being so many ties (all with 2 votes each). I'm wondering if, next time, we could go for a sort of compromise voting, not so simple as the very simple voting we had this time, but less complicated than the "preference" system I tried to test earlier.

What I propose is to have a multi-choice vote, where everyone gets three votes, rather than one. That way it should be easier to have clear 1st and 2nd (and maybe even 3rd) places, since there's still likely to be many more entries than people voting for them.

It shouldn't be difficult to do a multi-choice poll, but it would require people to use an honour system, since with multi-choice, there's no limit to the number of choices one can pick, but people would have to restrain themselves to three.

What do y'all think? Would it work?

Comments

[kerravonsen]

To make it simple, you just pick your three favourites; there will not be ranking of the choices. No separate polls, because that's more work for me (me not taking out the calculator and the pencil, no).

It's a compromise between simple one-person-one-vote, and trying something more sophisticated with preferences.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Oh, OK. Picking three favourites might actually be easier for me. Will there still be two polls, one for execution and one for "I just like it"?

[kerravonsen]

Yep, still two polls. I think those are good categories.