On Polls and Voting...

[tamingmods.livejournal.com]

Ok...so I've felt this way for a long time. I kind of let it go as this was one of the main features of the comm, but seeing as now that we're having trouble keeping up with the polls (not to mention how time consuming they are to assemble) I wanted to do some research.

I've gone back and checked the last 10 weeks, and my feeling is that the polls don't do much.

Here are the numbers. For the dates listed, I logged the max number of votes that any single story got and here they are: 

24-Aug	2
31-Aug	2
7-Sep	2
14-Sep	1
22-Sep	2
28-Sep	2
6-Oct	2
13-Oct	2
21-Oct	3
26-Oct	3
2-Nov	1

Every week there are quite a few stories (sometimes more than half) that don't get votes at all.

Based upon that, I don't feel that the polls are being that useful to our authors. I think, if this is a feature the members would like to keep, we should probably redefine their purpose.

Are we trying to help authors improve?
Are they for identifying writers that don't meet the minimum threshold?
Something else?

As members what would you like to get out of the polls? And what would make you vote?


~tamingmods (calypso)

Comments

[catw00man.livejournal.com]

Ty hun and like I said I don't envy you guys. To be honest in the beginning the polls were something I thought was really cool because just it's existence kinda made this more of an elite group if you know what I mean? But with us being such a diverse group, it makes it hard.

I will say though, I love that we ARE a diverse group. There's not a lot of places that do welcome us NASCARers and over the years I have received a few fbs. Ones from here always meant more because I knew I was being looked as a good writer, not as just a writer of pretty boys. LOL So thank you guys for what you do!