Theorymon
Long Live Super Mario Maker! 2015-2024
So we were talking about CAP in #Pokemon , and user gec brought up a pretty good idea that I think we should discuss!
While Voting in CAP is better than it has been in the past, there are still some problems with it. First of all, they create a span of 24 hours where there really isn't any interesting discussion on the forums. Secondly, there is still the potential for bandwagoning to play a major role in voting because everyone can still see each other's votes! The proposed solution is to use blind voting.
By blind voting, I mean what the old suspect test voting threads in Policy Review did. In these forums, when a user who isn't a mod / smod/admin, their post is invisible to all but mods/smods/admins. While this might unfortunately require a forum being made just for CAP voting, I think this has several huge benefits for us to consider. First of all, this mostly solves the bandwagoning issue (I'll hopefully assume that most mods are mature enough to make their own decisions). Secondly, this would let us keep discusison threads open for much longer. Instead of just closing discussion threads after 24 hours, we would keep them open while the polls are up, link to the polls in the OP + make a new post alerting people that the polls are open, and let people make arguments for what the best option on the slate is there!
EDIT: We could use redirects to make it so the polls still appear in the main forum btw!
While Voting in CAP is better than it has been in the past, there are still some problems with it. First of all, they create a span of 24 hours where there really isn't any interesting discussion on the forums. Secondly, there is still the potential for bandwagoning to play a major role in voting because everyone can still see each other's votes! The proposed solution is to use blind voting.
By blind voting, I mean what the old suspect test voting threads in Policy Review did. In these forums, when a user who isn't a mod / smod/admin, their post is invisible to all but mods/smods/admins. While this might unfortunately require a forum being made just for CAP voting, I think this has several huge benefits for us to consider. First of all, this mostly solves the bandwagoning issue (I'll hopefully assume that most mods are mature enough to make their own decisions). Secondly, this would let us keep discusison threads open for much longer. Instead of just closing discussion threads after 24 hours, we would keep them open while the polls are up, link to the polls in the OP + make a new post alerting people that the polls are open, and let people make arguments for what the best option on the slate is there!
EDIT: We could use redirects to make it so the polls still appear in the main forum btw!