From Turbo Sent Tue, Jan 5th 1999, 21:44
From Turbo Sent Tue, Jan 5th 1999, 21:44
Chris, >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. >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. >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)? >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