BUMPING FOR MORE PEOPLE TO READ. I WANT EVERYONE’S INPUT!!!
Each week, I check the polls periodically to see how many people are voting. I have noticed that there a few people who are voting, but not in the way I intended. Sometimes, someone will vote for one song on one poll and totally ignore the rest of the polls. Other times, someone will vote once in each poll. I truly don’t mind this at all. I just assume that these people want to make sure they get a vote in for one of their favorite songs. I also assume that they are okay with me making the rest of their votes for them.
I do check often enough to know how many people have voted in a given week so I know how many votes I need to place. Since the switch to starting the polls on Sundays, I have tried not to look at the current results after the midweek point just so I don’t really know who’s going to win until the end of the week. This way, when I have to make votes for other people who didn’t make all of theirs, I don’t make any votes that would swing the results towards what I want. The thing is, when I do this I have changed the results of the poll towards what I want anyway.
My query, to any reader out there, is which of the following should I do:
Make no changes. Should I just leave it as is and just forget that I ever asked you about it?
Limit the polls to one song each week. What I would do here is allow everyone to vote for one song to increase in star rating each week. If there needs to be more than one song to move up, I would pick the remaining songs. I would not vote in your poll and I would establish a set criteria for how I would pick songs, with this criteria being slightly different for the 2-star poll.
Find some way to make it so your have to vote the correct number of times. Plain and simple, this is an option I want to avoid. The only way that I can think of is to give you an e-mail address so you can e-mail me your choices. I would have to calculate the votes myself, which wouldn’t be a big deal unless the CMLCI becomes really popular.
Other. Do you have a suggestion?
I am going to keep this poll open through next Monday, which is when I will announce what the winning option was and how we will proceed from there. Any changes that may take place will not be in effect until the CMLCI for the chart week of 7/26 to 8/1/09. Thanks for your vote!