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KRHH: Tournament update - voting methods?

Again, this is part of a series of updates I'll be posting this week to survey opinions on the finer points of the tournament. Today's topic is voting methods: Should winners for each battle to be decided based on popular vote, judge decision, or a mix of both?

In the past we've used popular vote for the most part, but this can get messy as random users who aren't regs can cast a vote, plus people can create fake accounts to vote for themselves. So we would need to pick which votes we're counting and which ones we won't. There's also the problem that this can sometimes become a popularity contest rather than a tournament because some regs will only vote for people they like (or vote against people they don't like). When I hosted way back, I allowed users to privately request a "nullification" against a reg if they had issues with one another.

Judge decisions are a little safer in that they leave judging to prominent regs that we can trust. It goes without saying that a judge cannot participate in the battles. They need to be impartial and they should have a fairly open idea as to what makes a verse good. It can also be a tricky thing, because it also places a responsibility on the judges to make good and sometimes unpopular decisions which can easily be criticized by everyone else.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    6 years ago

    Here is it. It's on the main page ;)

    https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20...

    I think only regs should vote... That's true regs could make other accounts and vote for themselves.

    Anyway, I don't think anybody is against others, but some may be against CCV (if he's going to partecipate). Nothing against him, though... I know some are mad at him because he blocked them lol.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    6 years ago

    Look I think he should allow voting to regs only if that's possible and have a couple of judges. I want to be a judge and I think there should be at least another one for better results. Voting should be allowed to everyone who uses YA RHH section except from the judges of course. 50% judges choice and 50% voters choice is fair I guess. What do you think?

    Source(s): I just reposted the link to this question and it doesn't show up at the main page what's the fucking matter...
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