The best way to equalize the voting system: Input.
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:41 am
I believe that we should keep the complete average system, however:
Voting 4-8 should be allowed without any given reason. If you feel a series was mediocre or not 10-worthy, you can vote 4-8 with no given reason.
However, I believe that you should have to give criteria if you're voting above 8 or below 3 (to amount to no less than 300 written characters about why you feel the series deserves a 9 or 10, or why you think it deserves a 3 or worse).
For those of you that think 300 characters is a lot, this post will amount to over 1000 by the time I finish it. The average word has 5 characters, that's 60 words on how you feel about something you're either pledging allegiance to or hating on.
There is no need for moderators to adjust user votes, rather, we need to adjust the input we collect from the users themselves.
If you think a given group/series/movie/episode is spectacular or really sucks, you can assuredly write 60 words on it. If you can't, then the validity of your vote itself should be drawn into question. We don't need a bunch of inconsiderate fanboys and/or useless bashers who don't provide input voting on series' that they didn't even really watch.
In addition, your vote and reason for voting should be publicly displayed next to your username, to prevent puppeteering. This is just my recommendation... it would show us who the fuck is throwing out all those 1s and 10s for no good reason.
Voting 4-8 should be allowed without any given reason. If you feel a series was mediocre or not 10-worthy, you can vote 4-8 with no given reason.
However, I believe that you should have to give criteria if you're voting above 8 or below 3 (to amount to no less than 300 written characters about why you feel the series deserves a 9 or 10, or why you think it deserves a 3 or worse).
For those of you that think 300 characters is a lot, this post will amount to over 1000 by the time I finish it. The average word has 5 characters, that's 60 words on how you feel about something you're either pledging allegiance to or hating on.
There is no need for moderators to adjust user votes, rather, we need to adjust the input we collect from the users themselves.
If you think a given group/series/movie/episode is spectacular or really sucks, you can assuredly write 60 words on it. If you can't, then the validity of your vote itself should be drawn into question. We don't need a bunch of inconsiderate fanboys and/or useless bashers who don't provide input voting on series' that they didn't even really watch.
In addition, your vote and reason for voting should be publicly displayed next to your username, to prevent puppeteering. This is just my recommendation... it would show us who the fuck is throwing out all those 1s and 10s for no good reason.