BigaBadaEnda
Getting sticky.
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[X] slippery slope - 6
[X] Recoil - 5
[X] Recoil - 5
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Again? I'm starting to feel neglected
This would just result in the most common winners (Recoil, Wyvern) winning more often and everything else falling even further behind.PS. Maybe it's a good idea to let excess votes for each winner overflow into the next round? Must suck to see dozens of votes potentially going to waste once your fav wins. Or worse people will start to vote strategically, shortchanging their favorite so it doesn't win too much and waste their vote. We don't want this democratic system to be as flawed as First Past The Post do we?
The votes determine which of the stories that can be voted on will be prioritized over the other stories on the vote list. I don't know their schedule, maybe they set aside a day of the week and say "today, if I write, it's the voted story" or maybe they do just write what they feel like, unless it'd be a voted story. There's stuff that's been taken off the vote list in the past, or added when one of the stories finishes. A couple of stories are definitely in the "I'm going to write more of this despite the votes, so it doesn't go on the list." camp, while I can only assume others need more planning or have limited motivation to be continued at the moment.More seriously how do you decide what these seeming bonus/unvoted chapters are going to be? Just what you feel like writing at the moment or is there some method to the madness I'm not seeing
Vote overflow makes the winning stories more winning. This is bad for anyone that wants any other stories to ever update before the winning stories end.In short because it feels bad. It means you are more likely to want to vote for what is most practical increase of voting for what you love. Best voting systems are designed so that what you love and what is most practical are one and the same. Vote overflow would achieve that in this small country
Again? I'm starting to feel neglected
More seriously how do you decide what these seeming bonus/unvoted chapters are going to be? Just what you feel like writing at the moment or is there some method to the madness I'm not seeing
PS. Maybe it's a good idea to let excess votes for each winner overflow into the next round? Must suck to see dozens of votes potentially going to waste once your fav wins. Or worse people will start to vote strategically, shortchanging their favorite so it doesn't win too much and waste their vote. We don't want this democratic system to be as flawed as First Past The Post do we?
Okay, this is how it works.
It's very simple.Thank you for the answer @Ack that is more than fair, and thank you for the explanation.
But because I am an argumentative nerd on the internet, what possible gamer move do you see for that system I proposed? And it is simple to boot
Except that the winning stories will eventually reach their endings, and thus make room for another story to fit into a winning slot.Vote overflow makes the winning stories more winning. This is bad for anyone that wants any other stories to ever update before the winning stories end.
I personally vote a bit strategically because while I really like the stories that win the most, I also want some other stories I really like to update sometime this decade, so I put more votes toward those. This gets me what I want, or close to it, in that a spread of stories I like update, even if I like the stories that win the most more in general.
If I put all my votes toward the stories that win the most, it might update a little more often (or significantly more often with overflow), but in contrast the other stories I like essentially wouldn't update. Hence I vote such that they get a little bit of a boost (as much as any one person doing so can, anyway).
This doesn't feel bad to me, but then I'm don't feel like I'm slighting the popular story either, so maybe it's just an unresolvable difference of perspective or opinion.
1) UP TO six votes. I will not count anything extra, and a write-in will likely be ignored (if I want to write a different story, I will, but at my own discretion). Suggestions are welcome, but I am under no obligation to carry them out. And just remember, the more stories I am writing, the longer it will take for your favourites to roll back around.
2) First vote is worth six points, second is worth five, and so on.
3) You can't vote twice on the same story. The voting code will count the last vote and ignore previous ones.
4) If I say "Voting is CLOSED", then this post comes up, with "Voting is OPEN" at the bottom, then you can vote again.
5) If I say "Voting will continue", it's still the same voting period. Voting has not restarted. You can not vote a second time.
6) When I have finished a few of the current fics, I will look at bringing stories back on to the list.
[X] Alea Iacta Est - 6
[X] World War Scion - 5
[X] War Games - 4
[X] Recoil - 3
[X] Hostage Situation - 2
[X] Reality Intrudes - 1
Specifically: SQUARE brackets around an X, one space, and please spell at least the first word of the name of the story properly. Number of voting points comes last. Please try to format your vote properly, so as not to confuse the vote counter.