Suggestion Contest voting to scale to participants

I think it should depend on the competition and number of participants although i personally dont think there needs to be more then one necessarily it is a competition after all +.+

 

I agree with opening up the number of votes per person. It has all already been said, but if you let people choose their favorite entries, as in, top 1/3 of the total entries, rather than just THE best entry, it doesn't change the fact that the best will be ranked first, since it will be in most voters' top 1/3. However what it changes is that it smoothes out the overall ranking, and as said before, it makes it easier to distinguish how well you've done, if you're really behind all the others and lack basic skills, or if you're with the very-good-but-not-ultimate-best group that are just after the few first ones. It helps pinning what exactly you have to improve, and how much.

Want it or not, every competition is a feedback. If two of all the entries get all the votes and all the others get 0-2 votes, the feedback is that the first two did a good job and all the rest were equally bad. This feedback is shit but it's still feedback.

The only argument I see in favor of keeping 1 vote/person is that, if you allow more votes/person, people will vote for all those who are their friends. To me this argument doesn't hold.
> first, you assume most voters will vote for their friends primarily. This is not necessarily true
> second, if you consider that most people will vote fairly and a few will for their friends, then their influence shouldn't be too strong on the final result
> third, if you go by that reasoning, then the fact of voting for friends is also a problem in the 1 vote/person system. A person who would vote their friends in case of multiple votes/person will probably also choose a friend in case of 1 vote/person. And if most people do that, then the winner is just the one who has most friends, whereas if only a few do that, it doesn't influence the final result too much.

All in all, voting for friends is a problem that is independent from the number of votes per person in my opinion.

 

I think the current poll voting is fine. If you like doing graphics enough you will want to improve to get more votes and become the best. IF you get turned off on improving caused you get zero votes then maybe this isnt the kind of thing for you. I entered contests a lot and lost a lot with no votes whatsoever and all that did was make me try harder and improve so i could start getting votes and finally win. I kept at it and improved tons and started winning contest.

 

AOTW will never be a feedback contest.NEVER.

It's a competition after all.Making it 3 votes it will make it biased 'couse how far I've seen you want to encourage people but that means you aren't voting for quality in the end.And that's what AOTW is...a quality winner.

With this system you get a true winner and a worthy second and third place.3 Votes would make better avatars suffer couse you want to enocourage beginners lol

 

Explain this i bet you can't.

 

:facepalm

 

You literally said you want to encourage beginners but you are supposed to vote for best avatar lol

 

Why would they suffer if they get the same number of votes?

Or do you mean it would hurt their pride that other people would get more votes in comparison to their score?

 

'Couse with that an avatar which is clearly a beginning avatar will get more votes than a quality work.

Since you want to encourage people in a competition which is supposed to find the best avatar of the week.

In the end if it's 3 votes I'D EXPECT you to vote for the best,second best and third best...not a beginning avatar just to make someone encouraged lol that's not even the point of this contest.

It's anonymous anyways so it's just nonsense.

 

I can see the point but i also think the current system is fine and saying it wont allow people to get better if it stays this way im sorry is a bunch of bullshit imo.

Also you are good so shush.

 

The point is not to vote for the beginners. The point is to vote for the works that you think are the best third out of the bunch.

But beginners will get more votes than if you only vote for 1 entry that way, because some people will think their work ranks 3rd for example. That's how you encourage them, not by expressedly voting for the works that show the least experience

 

I feel pretty stuck in the middle to be honest. I don't have any issues with the current voting system, but the one that has been proposed isn't without merit.

If there was some way to meet halfway, that would be great. I'm not sure how we would achieve that though. Maybe users can vote for the Best Avatar using their poll vote, but in their post - list two other entries that stood out for them?? Then the person who wins the secondary vote system gets an honourable mention. This way we could circumvent the "discouraging" of participants.