Chris,
quoted 3 lines First-round balloting averaged about 16% abstentions across the board. (The>First-round balloting averaged about 16% abstentions across the board. (The
>final round averaged 22%.) Many people simply aren't interested in all the
>categories.
Hmmm would seem so, but at the second round you're getting nearly a quarter
of the votes wasted. So either change the categories or simply not box
people into having to abstain or vote for something they haven't heard.
quoted 11 lines The second round is anything but redundant. Without it, a majority of votes>The second round is anything but redundant. Without it, a majority of votes
>are wasted on records with no chance of winning. In first-round balloting in
>the Drum & Bass Album of the Year category, 19 titles received one vote each.
>I think it would be ludicrous to declare a winner based on that, especially
>with the top vote-getter receiving only eight votes and the runner-up having
>seven. It's impossible to have a clear winner without splitting up the
>balloting, unless you go to a weighted-vote system (i.e. vote for your top
>five or ten or whatever, and a first-place vote is worth more than a
>second-place vote, etc.) I haven't been willing to run the poll this way,
>because under the present arrangement it's hard enough for people to follow
>the directions on the ballot.
Well i think the weighted-vote system would be much better at getting a
representative poll result. Yes it's far more difficult to manage, but then
the end of year IDM poll results would show a much better representation of
the music we all listen to.
quoted 4 lines I think the two-round format also makes for a more inclusive poll. More>I think the two-round format also makes for a more inclusive poll. More
>people are likely to vote when given nominees to choose from, rather than
>a blank ballot. The poll bears this out: 68 ballots in the first round
>this year, 113 in the second.
Yeah like the guy voting for WAP100 based on what he's heard via real-audio
through the Warp site. I for one abstained from voting on any category
where i hadn't heard any of the selected releases. I'd like to take a brief
poll as to who participated in the poll and voted for something they
haven't actually heard in its proper releasable format (ie, no demos,
tapes, mp3's or RA's, etc)?
quoted 3 lines If I do an all-time poll later this year, it will use a one-round,>If I do an all-time poll later this year, it will use a one-round,
>weighted-vote system. Depending on how well or badly that goes, I might
>change over to such a system for the 1999 year-end poll.
Thanks, it'll be interesting to see how it turns out.
Regards,
John