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posted by NCommander on Wednesday April 23 2014, @10:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the apt-get-install-democracy dept.
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: 4, Interesting) by Rataerix on Wednesday April 23 2014, @10:24PM

    by Rataerix (799) on Wednesday April 23 2014, @10:24PM (#35179)

    I thought the voting system was fairly straight forward. I was surprised that there were so many options, I think It should have been narrowed down more before put to a general vote

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  • (Score: 1) by NaN on Thursday April 24 2014, @10:50AM

    by NaN (3118) on Thursday April 24 2014, @10:50AM (#35445)

    This. The list was too long and wading through the utter crap to find and rank 9 names is just too much work. There aren't enough hours in the day as it is and I don't care enough about the name of some news site to put in that kind of effort. Build an online form with no more than a dozen options, and I'll gladly fill it out.