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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 unusual understanding of the problems of human relationships.
(Score: 2) by clone141166 on Thursday April 24 2014, @06:35AM
O M F G. I just read the vote email again and yes it says:
"A higher number means you like this choice better."
WTF guys? Every existing voting system I have ever used uses 1 as highest preference... why would you reverse it? :(
I like that you hid this massively significant detail as 1 sentence in amongst a gigantic wall of text so that this clearly *abnormal* and *unintuitive* requirement wasn't in any way easily visible or concisely pointed out. *sigh*
Just keep SoylentNews, for all its flaws it's just as good as anything else suggested. Changing names now will just add confusion for the sake of what... proving that we can generate clever names and are therefore smarter than everyone else?
Thank you for trying though (seriously thank you), but definitely a warning canary! I guess at least this vote is on something fairly trivial that doesn't matter if things go wrong. Biggest piece of advice: Concisely repeat the exact voting process in dot-point form at the end of the email so there is absolutely ZERO confusion - perhaps with an example vote shown?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 24 2014, @09:28AM
> Every existing voting system I have ever used uses 1 as highest preference...
You obviously didn't spend much time on HotOrNot :-)
(Score: 2) by Open4D on Thursday April 24 2014, @03:36PM
If you didn't absorb this before voting, don't worry. You can change your vote [soylentnews.org].
(Score: 2) by clone141166 on Thursday April 24 2014, @05:30PM
Thanks. It's kind of funny that there is yet another weird/hidden feature in the voting process that lets you recast your ballot.
The SoylentNews voting machine has so many features I think somewhere in there it probably doubles as a microwave oven.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 25 2014, @01:03AM
learn to read you fucktard