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I wanted to get feedback on how the community feels about our current name vote. There have been some concerns that we've had relatively small percentage (~10 percent) of members register to vote, and wanted to see if there was something more fundamental going on. As it is currently setup, here's how things are
- You had to be registered by April 12th to have been included in the name vote; if you received a ballot for submission, you should have gotten ranking ballot
- We haven't retroactively added in additional users, though it hasn't been clear that there was a hard cutoff
- The submission phase went until the 19th, and the vote for the name will continue until the 27th
- The current system is email only (but we are looking at getting something integrated into the website implemented for future votes)
I want to hear your feedback below from everyone. Based on what we get back, we'll roll improvements into future votes, or if need be, reset the vote and do it again; I know a lot of you are active here or at least more involved, so the relatively low turnout is a warning canary for me. Leave your comments below, and expect another story in a few days to see how we're using your comments.
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(Score: 2) by Covalent on Wednesday April 23 2014, @10:23PM
Despite attempting to do so, twice.
But I'd have voted for SoylentNews anyway, so I'm happy to hear it's likely to be the winner.
You can't rationally argue somebody out of a position they didn't rationally get into.
(Score: 2) by Ken_g6 on Wednesday April 23 2014, @10:30PM
This. All of this, except I never attempted to vote until this point. I did somehow get subscribed to a daily newsletter of stories, but I haven't gotten a ballot.
(Score: 1) by iroll on Wednesday April 23 2014, @11:24PM
Same. I received the nominations ballot but not the voting one... and I would have voted for SoylentNews.
(Score: 1) by uiginn on Wednesday April 23 2014, @10:43PM
Mod this thread up. I didn't get one either.
(Score: 2) by Marand on Wednesday April 23 2014, @11:05PM
I haven't gotten one either. I also never got a request for name submissions (which is fine, I didn't have a suggestion). Not even anything in spam folders.
So, either there's something wrong with the system (or my email address), or there's some extra caveat to getting the mail that's been neglected to be mentioned.
I don't much care what the site name is, honestly, so I guess it doesn't matter too much, though I do think the current one is kind of crap and would have liked to at least see the alternatives.
(Score: 1) by gitano on Thursday April 24 2014, @01:59PM
I am in exact same situation, only emails i get are the daily newsletters. But do not mind the name at all, i come there to read the comments. Not wanted to even ask why was not getting those emails, maybe i am outside US or something wrong whit my hotmail account, they are not in spam folder either.
(Score: 1) by joekiser on Thursday April 24 2014, @12:57AM
Same here. Did not receive an email from SoylentNews. Maybe its because I unsubscribed from the daily newsletter?
Debt is the currency of slaves.
(Score: 1) by bill_mcgonigle on Thursday April 24 2014, @02:19AM
No, I got the newsletter and not the ballot.
Admins, if you give me a timestamp for when the mail was sent to me, I'll check my logs for you.
Unless there was some opt-in I never heard about...
(Score: 2) by lhsi on Thursday April 24 2014, @07:25AM
In the preferences section there is a "willing to vote" checkbox that has to be checked in order to take part. It was mentioned in one of the earlier stories about the vote, but I seem to recall that it was a lengthy post.
(Score: 2) by mth on Thursday April 24 2014, @09:53AM
I didn't know about that checkbox, so that explains why I didn't get a ballot. The checkbox is in a weird place: I'd expect it under Messages, not under Homepage. I never read the home page -- I use RSS instead -- so I never looked at the home page preferences.
(Score: 1) by joekiser on Tuesday April 29 2014, @01:47AM
Well I *did* select the checkbox, and it never arrived. I know how to check my spam folder.
The whole name change vote is fucking stupid. It's about to turn me off from this site as well.
Debt is the currency of slaves.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Thursday April 24 2014, @01:19PM
The opt-in window was pretty small too, only a few days i think.
SN won't survive on lurkers alone. Write comments.
(Score: 2) by melikamp on Thursday April 24 2014, @12:02PM