Voting system

[jcdesign]

I do not like voting system on the competitions. I want to see who voted and what they voted for. When it is very evenly on top, I think you can ask friends to vote on his sleeve to gain points and win the contest.

[bazzah]

I am not sure I totally follow. Are you saying you think competitors SHOULD be able to get their friends to vote for their covers, to bump their score?

[easylife]

I think he means that you should be able to see who voted for what cover instead of it being anonymous, then you could see if all the votes for a winning cover/label came from the winners friends.

[BearStyle]

The admins can already see who voted for what, and keep a keen eye on what goes on.. So I kinda dont see a point as to why all users would need to.

Cheers

[jcdesign]

QUOTE (easylife @ May 26 2010, 10:11 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I think he means that you should be able to see who voted for what cover instead of it being anonymous, then you could see if all the votes for a winning cover/label came from the winners friends.

Yes. It was that I mean easylife.

[LittleCoolDude]

Not that it means anything, but I like the way it is now. I think its more fair. If you vote for a friend, then big deal, its the persons choice who to vote for.

[invisigoth]

If a person got friends to vote how would the mods know anyway. I think it would just look like another member voting, you probably couldn't control that even with a public vote. Hopefully most entrants wouldn't want to win like that anyway.

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[Irrob]

During the voting phase, only one person knows who made what...Bazzah. Only until the results are finished does everyone else find out.

[Kernie]

QUOTE (Irrob @ May 26 2010, 09:23 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

During the voting phase, only one person knows who made what...Bazzah. Only until the results are finished does everyone else find out.

That's only in the HRC, the COTM and LOTM still show who made what.

Either way, I think people being able to see who voted for what is a really bad idea. People should choose the covers they like best, but if they vote for a friend, how would you know? Furthermore, how would you know that person didn't honestly think their friend's cover was the best?

I personally wouldn't like everyone to know who I voted for. It would just create unnecessary conflict between members; it would give the losers a list of people to "blame" for their cover not winning, which is unfair.

When voting, I never even look at the designer's name, I try to judge the covers based on their own merits and not on how I feel about the person who created it.

Kern out...

[voetzoeker]

Well as this is a public forum, there is really no way to stop people who enter a contest, to ask friends to join up and vote for them.

The only way to prevent this is to restrict voting to contributor status and up.
But do we want that ?

IMO the voting is fine as it is and if members need to invite friends to vote for their cover to win
Then i think they're really sad