26-11-2022, 22:50
I commenced this vote for Empress of Xpanded 2022 yesterday (Friday 25th Nov). As compared to previous years, I changed the rules to a ranked system, and extended the number of nominees per vote to 8 Xpanded nightshow babes. By 'ranked system', I mean I invited voters to rank their choices in ranking order, with your favourite choice at the top of your list. The rules I set out were that babes would be allocated points relative to their positions in all submitted nomination lists accordingly, with first place receiving 8 points, 2nd 7 points and so on down to 8th place getting 1 point. I said that voters may declare less than 8 if they wish, and that if voters only wish to vote for one favourite, that is fine.
The winner will be the girl who has the most points.
I had thought that this ranked voting system would give more accuracy in the overall voting by taking account of people's relative choices of some nominees in relation to others. However, Harry flagged something up which I didn't fully appreciate at first and I've now realised that this voting system may well be flawed if too many people skew a nominees vote tally up by exclusively voting for their preferred option and no-one else, as Harry did. Of course he isn't the only one. Granted, I did from the outset say this was within the rules, so the buck stops with me! If this happens too much, it may exaggerate the total votes for particular nominees and take away from the principle of trying to attain vote tallies for nominees reflecting voters' relative ratings of nominees in relation to eachother. I'll see how this goes - maybe we'll have to terminate this voting and start again. What do people think?
The winner will be the girl who has the most points.
I had thought that this ranked voting system would give more accuracy in the overall voting by taking account of people's relative choices of some nominees in relation to others. However, Harry flagged something up which I didn't fully appreciate at first and I've now realised that this voting system may well be flawed if too many people skew a nominees vote tally up by exclusively voting for their preferred option and no-one else, as Harry did. Of course he isn't the only one. Granted, I did from the outset say this was within the rules, so the buck stops with me! If this happens too much, it may exaggerate the total votes for particular nominees and take away from the principle of trying to attain vote tallies for nominees reflecting voters' relative ratings of nominees in relation to eachother. I'll see how this goes - maybe we'll have to terminate this voting and start again. What do people think?