MIAB - Christmas Competition Official Voting Topic

MIAB - Christmas Competition Official Voting Topic

Postby DezNutz » Thu Jan 06, 2022 5:38 pm

Ahoy Mateys!

It seems that voting for this competition has turned into an escapade of polling shenanigans. Due to the large number of participants, the in-forum polling was insufficient to properly casts votes. Third party polling options also seemed to be problematic. There is however a solution to this mess.

I introduce the Google Form.......

https://forms.gle/kUDczBx8t3vzWuNj8

The above link will take you to a Google Form where you can submit your vote.

As a note, the form requires both your email address (PG Account Email preferred) and your PlayerID. This info is only to ensure that the votes being submitted are honest. And to ensure that the results are reported honestly, your submission will be emailed to the address provided. The data will be deleted upon completion of the competition and will only be accessible to myself. If you are worried about me seeing your email address, I've probably already seen it as a result of the forum, SLACK, Wiki, and game development work that I'm involved in.

Additionally, the voting results will not be viewable until the competition voting has ended. The results will be checked for duplicate entries and posted upon completion of the voting period and posting of the winners.

Voting will be open until January 12, 2022 23:59:59 Server Time. If you are unsure when that is, at the bottom of the game is a bar that shows Server Time.

If there are any questions or concerns, please let me know, preferably via Game PM (#54689). I would like to keep this topic clean.

-Dez


VOTES CAST AS OF EDIT: 23
Last edited by DezNutz on Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:45 am, edited 10 times in total.
Reason: Number of Votes Cast Update
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Re: MIAB - Christmas Competition Official Voting Topic

Postby Lil Lola » Thu Jan 06, 2022 6:26 pm

Dez saves the day!!! I’ve used Google Forms as well. They are great too!! Well done.
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Re: MIAB - Christmas Competition Official Voting Topic

Postby Captain cudeggs » Mon Jan 10, 2022 12:57 am

VOTE FOR CUDEGGS SO HE DOESNT GO BROkE :D :D
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Re: MIAB - Christmas Competition Official Voting Topic

Postby DezNutz » Wed Jan 12, 2022 2:14 pm

Last Day to vote.

Voting ends at game update (server midnight).
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Re: MIAB - Christmas Competition Official Voting Topic

Postby DezNutz » Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:01 am

The Voting has concluded with 23 votes cast. Results will be posted soon.
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Re: MIAB - Christmas Competition Official Voting Topic

Postby sXs » Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:07 am

DezNutz wrote:The Voting has concluded with 23 votes cast. Results will be posted soon.


Yeah..... only 23 votes total.... Should be the last time we use an outside poll for this suff.
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Re: MIAB - Christmas Competition Official Voting Topic

Postby Meliva » Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:15 am

live and learn as they say. Need to figure out a way to better handle large groups of things to vote for. Had a few nasty hiccups with this contest, but next one should run better.
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Re: MIAB - Christmas Competition Official Voting Topic

Postby Lil Lola » Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:30 am

23 entries and 23 votes is that right? So people only voted for themselves? Hope not lol
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Re: MIAB - Christmas Competition Official Voting Topic

Postby DezNutz » Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:33 am

sXs wrote:
DezNutz wrote:The Voting has concluded with 23 votes cast. Results will be posted soon.


Yeah..... only 23 votes total.... Should be the last time we use an outside poll for this suff.


Well internal voting only allows for 10 options max, when you have more than 10 voting options you have no choice but to use an outside voting method.

Shows that players didn't want to bother filling out a simple form, it must have been super difficult to click a link and click submit. Based on ID, slightly more newer players voted than veterans.

I suspect that another reason for the low results was because the results were hidden so they had no idea who was leading in the votes, which eliminating pay for voting. Thus only those that cared voted.
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Re: MIAB - Christmas Competition Official Voting Topic

Postby Meliva » Thu Jan 13, 2022 12:44 am

a few folks might have also gotten tired of voting for this contest. We did have a few false starts, still, with 2 different polls, even if you voted for yourself, you still end up voting for another person on the other poll.
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