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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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You have an ambitious nature and may make a name for yourself.
(Score: 2) by ancientt on Wednesday April 23 2014, @11:55PM
I have two accounts, I only set one up to vote because I want to be fair. I really want to vote a couple thousand times or just get asked to pick the final name, but I recognize the difference between what I like and what is best for the community (even if my opinion is actually the best one.)
I didn't submit a different name because I couldn't find any available domain name better than a couple of the suggestions I liked.
I didn't find the email process too cumbersome or unreasonable. I understand the goal is to prevent ballot stuffing and get a reasonable proximity to "one vote per interested person." I'm okay with it. Yes, I'd do it differently, but you're running a website that solicits the opinions of capable and opinionated geeks, so I think that's probably true for most of us. When all is said and done, I think what was done works as a first step toward final name selection and that is what I want as a primary goal.
How do I think I would have set it up? I think a poll with the prompt to ACs to "Login if you want to vote" and a plus/minus ranking system in HTML with a note that your vote won't be counted until you confirm by clicking a link sent to your registered email. I wouldn't have included the current domain in the voting, but noted that it would be in the runoff and in the runoff I would have listed it as "incumbent" where all the others showed how many votes they garnered in the primary. Maybe my ideas would have gotten more voting activity, maybe they would have been more intuitive and maybe they would have been even more successful, but maybe then again maybe not.
Bottom line is that what you did works and that's what I care about most.
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