Comments on: Teh Savage Minds Awards Ceremony

By: Anna

Anna — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:31:39 +0000

Why won’t this site allow me to post comments? And why didn’t anyone nominate Keith Hart’s The Memory Bank? No other anthro blog even comes close to this one…

By: John McCreery

John McCreery — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:04:42 +0000

Apart from anything else, the issue for me is that I haven’t actually looked at many of the nominees. Thus, only the first one or two nominations I choose are meaningful. The order of the others is arbitrary. It would be good of the system had a zero option, I choice that simply said, “I don’t know.”

By: John McCreery

John McCreery — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:04:41 +0000

By: ckelty

ckelty — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:27:42 +0000

ah but you have just discovered the mystery of voting systems. I don’t know if the items appear in random order… that’s a good question, but the results depend on the system you choose. If I choose majority or plurality, then it doesn’t matter how the other 6 entries are ordered, only the entry at the top. if I choose condorcet or borda, it does matter. Since I didn’t specify which voting system we would use, you have no idea what to do… cultural relativism reigns supreme!!!!!

If I had specified the voting system, then you would have to give it more thought. The full version of Selectricity is a bit more sophisticated than the “QuickVote” version…

By: Catherine

Catherine — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:22:29 +0000

There ought to be an option to send only the items wou actually want to vote for into the voting process. If I only really have an opinion on 3 items out of a list of 7 and only bother to rank a top 3, items 4-7 will still get points for being 4th, 5th, 6th or 7th. Do the items appear in random order every time the page loads? If not, items nearer the top of the list would end up getting a lot more ‘apathetic’ votes than items near the bottom.