Branl -> RE: =AQ= Warwolf Prime Giftmaster Set Vote (8/3/2024 12:24:10)
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Apologies for the late response. Wanted to gather my thoughts and observe the situation for a few more days. Here’s my thoughts on the poll and your posts. The reason why I wanted a hidden vote in a FPTP model is to avoid excessive tensions. Constantly seeing the poll results has led to escalation of rivalries. Soliciting for votes is perfectly fine (though tiring), but we recently had a campaigner denouncing their counterparty as the bad guys and getting non-AQ players to vote. We had neutral parties getting dragged into this verbal sparring matches. Players had been blamed for the action of others, caught in the crossfire, just by mere association. Even when there are attempts at peace-making, quibbling over semantics ensues. It’s getting a bit too much to handle. We don’t have many players in the first place, and we should all try to get along. As for why hidden votes would result in more token donations, uncertainty has always been a source of value. I.E., Options Valuations in Finance. If the result is hidden until the entire donation is over – and 2 favoured sets have 50-50 odds of winning, or perhaps even odds of 40-60, more whales will be donating “just in case”. We had way more tokens in circulation last year. This year, players have been abstaining, and many likely won’t donate much, or at all, if their preferred set does not win. It’s good for the budget conscious buyer, useful for the campaigner, but suboptimal for the game. Anyway, much of my thoughts are based on a FPTP system. I am aware that Lore keeper had suggested a ranked system to Rhubarb for the contest’s next iteration. Still, I hope it is implemented in a way that have people donating more, not less. (I.E., Idea Submission -> Donation Period -> Ranked Poll with Visible Results -> Set Distribution) Still, that's just an idea for next year I don't think not being able to see poll results would actually improve things. It'd make people that much more nervous, since they can't even be confident in a lead, they have to constantly campaign as if they're always on the precipice of defeat. As much as I sympathize with a desire to end tensions, I just don't see this as even a partial solution to the problem, and I wholeheartedly believe that it would exasperate the ongoing issues. Why wouldn't people just wait for the poll to end before donating? Why donate during a period of heavy uncertainty, if you're donating for the explicit purpose of receiving parts of the set? And 50-50 is fairly generous, to be honest. But, I'll refrain from commenting on that specifically until the events in question have concluded.
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