Of note:
If you poll up, you can't vote up.
If you poll down, you can't vote down.
You only get 1 up and 1 down per post - for the entire post, including comments.
Go back to the front page to vote on the post.
Ah yes, the bug where if a poll exists on a page all other voting on the page fails. I do need to fix that one.
So you are correct that you only get two votes in this poll. It's Math.ceil(options.length/2). That forces people to economize their votes and improves vote quality. I'm a voting nerd. That's also why downvotes are weighted more than upvotes. Both of these things lead to results that are widely agreeable rather than a victory by the option people feel strongest about.
I don't think that comment votes and poll votes are competing for the same limit. The comment votes just don't work when these polls are here. I have a fix in the todo list.
That's new to me, about weighted downvotes. I usually try to stay positive and avoid going down unless I feel strongly.
I know this is more work, but it might be worth either displaying, or have a FAQ page to display/explain the various vote-weighting types - and maybe have icons or [?] or something to explain that it's not 1:1. You could have clear explanatory titles or creative ambiguous names for the ratios like "x0x7's Blend" or "Pineapple Express". It would be neat to see a toggle switch to see if/how thing change depending on which ratio is employed. You could call it a "poll transmission" (not to be confused with a transmission pole). And you could have a poll to see what kind of weighting system folks prefer to use, in general, and for each use.
In addition to teaching folks about weighted polls, you could teach them about ranked-choice voting and other alternatives to first-past-the-post (misnamed), as well as other alternatives (listed under #4: http://Projex.Wiki/wiki/List_of_ways_to_rig_elections).
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Cool. This is a big improvement in a lot of ways.
Before I was just using the IP address. Turns out that now that IPv6 is getting popular ISPs have been reassigning people's IPv6 ips like mad.
So now we're using a little of everything.
Of note:
If you poll up, you can't vote up.
If you poll down, you can't vote down.
You only get 1 up and 1 down per post - for the entire post, including comments.
Go back to the front page to vote on the post.
Ah yes, the bug where if a poll exists on a page all other voting on the page fails. I do need to fix that one.
So you are correct that you only get two votes in this poll. It's Math.ceil(options.length/2). That forces people to economize their votes and improves vote quality. I'm a voting nerd. That's also why downvotes are weighted more than upvotes. Both of these things lead to results that are widely agreeable rather than a victory by the option people feel strongest about.
I don't think that comment votes and poll votes are competing for the same limit. The comment votes just don't work when these polls are here. I have a fix in the todo list.
That's new to me, about weighted downvotes. I usually try to stay positive and avoid going down unless I feel strongly.
I know this is more work, but it might be worth either displaying, or have a FAQ page to display/explain the various vote-weighting types - and maybe have icons or [?] or something to explain that it's not 1:1. You could have clear explanatory titles or creative ambiguous names for the ratios like "x0x7's Blend" or "Pineapple Express". It would be neat to see a toggle switch to see if/how thing change depending on which ratio is employed. You could call it a "poll transmission" (not to be confused with a transmission pole). And you could have a poll to see what kind of weighting system folks prefer to use, in general, and for each use.
Another neat new transmission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWJHI7UHuys (24:10)
In addition to teaching folks about weighted polls, you could teach them about ranked-choice voting and other alternatives to first-past-the-post (misnamed), as well as other alternatives (listed under #4: http://Projex.Wiki/wiki/List_of_ways_to_rig_elections).