August 2020 Photo Of The Month Voting

smoke665 · Sep 6, 2020

Thank you @terri . Personally I think not having the ability to change my mind makes me consider the choices more closely, without being influenced by the way others are voting.

terri · Sep 6, 2020

smoke665 said:
Thank you @terri . Personally I think not having the ability to change my mind makes me consider the choices more closely, without being influenced by the way others are voting.

Agreed. Make your decision, vote and stick with it. If there's a tie, the mods are given the task to choose, but I can't recall ever having to do it. We seem to always have clear winners.

Well - it's beside the point, because that feature seems to be embedded at the time the poll is created. Unless there's an option not to show it when a user creates a poll, I think it's part of xen Foro's setup.

snowbear · Sep 6, 2020

i've broken three or four ties between POTM and The Sm4him Challenge. One method I use is to hold my vote until the end, and break the tie that way. I have also consulted others. Dean will do what works best for him.

We had a tie (three-way IIRC) on Photo of the Year. For that, we held a second round of voting with just the tied entries.

Change You Vote is fine with me. Some folks may see something in one or another after they have voted, and I can see where someone might hit the wrong box, especially on a phone. I have a small screen and rather large (fat) fingers and frequently hit the wrong marker for things.

I stopped the "Display Votes Publicly" early on when I realized it showed who voted for what.