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In all honestly I'm pretty flexible on when we start movie night. I've mostly just been trying to be consistent with roughly the same time. But if we are going to do the same time every time we should do the best time! Let's figure out what that is.
Now that I have this new poll format that is good for large polls I put everything from start time to day of the week in here. Because Saturdays and Sundays are an option it made sense to include some of the earlier times of the day. Also because people might be joining from anywhere in the world and some of the earlier times might map to more reasonable times for them. All these times are based on the Eastern seaboard of the US (whether it chooses to be EST or EDT). So do math accordingly to decide when you mostly want to start.
You can upvote and downvote. Just like the movie poll this will live for a while. Also don't forget to vote in that poll if you want to adjust your votes any since we've watched a few. https://goatmatrix.net/c/MatrixEvents/6PuAWU1cSx
Remember this is Eastern time.
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I think I see 23 options but only got 12 votes.
Why is there a vote limit?
Another idea: Have a third "neutral/indifferent" column between "up" and "down" with all of them checked - so it's up to the user to alter each vote or leave it. Or you could leave it blank and let the user fill it in so it's less of a default but a choice to indicate "neutrality/indifference".
Why stop there? You could have a scale with 5 (or 7 or 9) ranking columns: "emphatic up"; "up"; "neutral"; "down"; "extreme down". Emphatic votes would get 2 points. Yes, it could dramatically change the results, but everyone would have the same tools to affect change, emphatically or not.
Maybe you could even have more columns (for other pols) if practical applications arose to take more than one measure.
Akin to more columns would be having more than one pol in a post, one after another (ie. what day + what time + what time zone).
Metrics rule!
It's to make it slightly more like quadradic voting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_voting
It forces you to economize your votes so we get higher quality of vote over quantity of vote.
It also puts some degree of limit on the most influential voters. We don't want someone's 23rd greatest preferences measured the same as another person's highest preference.
It's not technically quadratic voting because that would have even more friction and has flaws when people vote later than others and can see the poll state. But it does operate on the idea that there is diminishing intent with each vote and after a while we are below a threshold we want to count.
Having a neutral column while being slightly more clear would be the same as neither being selected and add more visual clutter. Notice how I'm using up and down icons. That's to avoid spacing out these check boxes too much. But how would I iconify neutrality in a universally understood way? Otherwise I have to spell it out and these check boxes are going to be super gappy.
Quadratic voting is interesting. TIL, thanks! But it seems excessively complex. Not sure most voters would understand, care, or see the results.
New idea:
Provide people 12 votes with 12 column positions on 12 different items listed all related under a single topical issue (time or day or movie, not a combo). Each column may only hold one vote (not all ranked 10). Rank columns (- 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10) replaces the "up" or "down" graphics. The dash is the default null that folks can move their vote away from. If their vote remains in the dash column it is not counted, neither positively or negatively, and will not affect the rank results for #1 below.
You may analyze the results in several ways.
If you have more than 12 items you could have a series of votes with a show down. If you have less than 12 items, leave some blank. Or you could scale up to 99 before you have 3 digits. If you wanted to get really fancy it wouldn't be difficult to create favicons/emojis with numbers, graphics, and such that you could embed on a page.
What'd you say faggot
He said, "Not that glory hole - the other one."
For MOAR GOAT GLORY!
I've noticed empty comments on poll posts before. I finally figured it out. People are hitting submit comment after hitting the check boxes. But the form is live.