eytanz wrote:
No, that's deliberately not allowed - voting is only fair if you can compare all candidates. If you're only allowed to vote for some, what prevents you from voting only for your own candidate and not even playing the others? In most contests, even if you can't complete the holds being compared, you should play enough of them to form an opinion.
While it's true that we want people to vote for all entries in a contest, for polls in general I think this wouldn't be a bad option, and we can use it to
emphasize that you need to vote for all entries in the official contests.
So, I think we (I) should:
- Start all polls with nothing selected - for the rating type, add a "
Select Score"
option as Rabscuttle mentioned.
- Allow poll creators to choose whether or not all questions must be answered.
Thus, for contest polls, we can ensure that nobody votes their own entry as 10 and "
forgets"
to vote for the others, giving them all 1s - they'd have to actively choose 1 for all of the others, which would hopefully at
least make them feel bad.
I like Rabscuttle's ranked summary page idea - contest results are usually very unwieldy.
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