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CAP 8 CAP 8 - Part 9 - Art Poll 1
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CyzirVisheen
DougJustDoug
pkmn-taicho321
DougJustDoug
pkmn-taicho321
CyzirVisheen
DougJustDoug
There were lots of good ones but these were the two I really loved the look of.
DougJustDoug
There were lots of good ones but these were the two I really loved the look of.
Yes, unless one of the art submissions has more than 50% of the votes or something crazy like that already from the start. I don't think that's the case, though, since 4-5 names have been in almost every single post so far, if not more.
Keishinkae
Blu
Wyverii
Blu
Wyverii
Regi DS
Cartoons!
Zantimonius
Cartoons!
Zantimonius
In a poll where multiple choices are allowed, there will ALWAYS be another poll. It does not matter if one option is selected on more than 50% of the ballots. This poll is a "narrow down poll" -- it is simply to narrow the field of choices for the next poll.
Since several people have asked questions about the "unlimited votes" format of this poll -- I'll take this chance to explain it to everyone. This is not a policy review on art voting methods, so don't spin off a discussion on this. I'm just explaining this poll to the community. TL;DR Alert...
We chose to allow unlimited choices, to give more feedback to the artists that made submissions. With this many submissions, if we only allow voters to choose a couple of options, then most likely the top submissions will hoard all the votes, and some of the less popular options will receive little, if any, votes. You may think, "Whats wrong with that? They ARE the top choices, and this is a POLL." Well, not really.
This is a community that likes to encourage artists to participate. For artists, it's nice to see how well your art was received by the community. If the very best submissions get all the votes, and many artists get almost none -- that doesn't give a lot of feedback to the majority of artists. They don't really know if their art was "horrible" or just "not the best". And there is a HUGE difference between those two. By allowing unlimited votes, everyone can vote for all the art that they liked. This gives meaningful feedback to all the artists. Under this format, the results of the first poll will give every artist a quantitative assessment of how many people in the community liked their submission.
Presumably, the increased feedback will encourage more artists than it discourages. And, most importantly, it will definitely give feedback to the artists that are good, but not the best in this particular CAP. On past CAP projects, it's possible that some good artists were turned off on CAP projects because their art received little to no votes -- giving the artist the perception that their art "sucked". When, in fact, it didn't suck -- it just wasn't as good as the top three or four submissions that time around. With this form of first round voting, those artists should see that their art is well-received by a large number of people in the CAP community -- regardless of the voting results in later polls, when people are restricted to a single vote.
This is actually how we used to do it in the first couple of CAP projects (multiple votes in the first poll), but stopped doing it for some unknown reason.
By the way, this voting style has little to no impact on the very best submissions. They will still get a ton of votes, regardless. The submissions that will move on to the next round, are not significantly impacted by allowing voters unlimited votes during this round. It really only impacts the middle and lower portion of the field, by giving them better information. It also impacts the TL, because vote counting is a helluva lot harder. But, we have a TL, an ATL, and lots of other people in the community willing to help out -- so vote-counting should not be a problem.
This voting style also addresses a sentiment expressed over and over in the art submission threads -- "Wow, there are so many amazing submissions! There are so many I wish I could vote for..." Well, now you can. Vote for as many as you like. The purpose of this poll is not to determine the winner, it is to determine how much the community likes the entire field of entries. So vote for all the submissions you like. If you only like one submission, or you think one submission is undeniably better than the rest, that's fine -- cast a single vote. If you like a dozen submissions, and think they are all deserving of your vote, that's fine too -- cast a dozen votes. There is really no "right" or "wrong" ballot in this poll. Express your opinion with your vote, and I'm sure all the artists will appreciate the community feedback.
Wyverii
pkmn-taicho321
DougjustDoug
Zantimonius
These are the best, but it's very close
pkmn-taicho321
DougjustDoug
Zantimonius
These are the best, but it's very close
Sorry to the rest. Many submissions are good, but these are what really grabbed me.
KoA
Yilx
Wyverii
Gooey Kablooie
DougJustDoug
ixfalia
KoA
Yilx
Wyverii
Gooey Kablooie
DougJustDoug
ixfalia
Cartoons!
CyzirVisheen
ixfalia
CyzirVisheen
ixfalia
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