Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-25230228-20170406135559

' READ THE WHOLE THREAD, INCLUDING REPLIES, BEFORE YOU VOTE!! If this gets supported, all existing votes will have a " [Pre-%] " tag added to the beginning of their titles and will use the old system. '

I feel like we need to massively rethink how we count votes, as there are certain gimmicks that don't necessarily seem to make as much sense.

The issue
The current voting system is a basic " /  " system, with Polar votes counted as one, Absolute Polar votes counted as two, and Polar-Neutral voites counting as half a  vote. Something I've noticed here is that makes it so that a neutral contains almost zero power, and many voting threads ignore them whilst in the proccess of counting up the votes. The system we have makes sense at first but it also has a couple of issues, such as "What if radicalized newer users decided to *only* use the Absolute Polar templates?" Something like that could lead to s team of people overthrowing a vote at the last second, simply because htey suddenly used Absolute votes.

My system
The system I've come up with uses percentages for votes. The existing, , , , , , , , and templates would remain and their influence would stay the same, except for the Absolute Polar templates. I'll get to that in a moment.

This system would provide a more accurate view of who has which views, as the existing templates may not do so all the time. There would be new and  templates, done in a similar fashion to the  temp  late.

Okay, but how is this counted? It can't be too simple...
Simple isn't always better. Adding the "- Neutral" Polar templates made the voting more complex, but it made it better, as while there are some votes you fully support Just add confirmed almanac genders to plant articles already please but some you may not be completely polar on, at least not enough to use a full Support/Oppose, but want you opinion counted on like how I don't consider PvZH to be canon as it doesn't have an almanac, because it's designed so primitively... so adding a percent-based system to the way votes are placed will make the votes more accurate, and will help to prevent that ever annoying "64.58% Support rate" thing (maybe).

Every vote adds a certain number of "points" for whatever side it votes for. There's Support Points and Oppose Points. Here's a full list of the influence of the existing templates, as they would have with this type of system:


 * Support/Oppose - 100
 * " - Neutral" - 50
 * Neutral - 100 for each side (I'll explain in a moment)
 * Nike/Anti-Nike - 110
 * Absolutely Polar - 115

How to determine the vote

 * Tally up the percent points for each side.
 * Take the average for each side.
 * Divide this number by two.
 * Add the numbers together, and find what final percent of the whole each point value has. That's the result of the vote.

Neutral votes
Neutral votes provide 100 percent points for each side. This is because it allows neutral users to have a proper say in something they don't have any full stance on.

Currently, if a vote gets, say, 15 supports, 5 Absolute opposes, and 8 neutrals, it's instantly supported with a 67% support rate. With the percents system, that vote would have 230% Supports, and 205% opposes. This becomes 115/103, which is a 52.8% supported vote. With the current system, thise neutrals don't matter, but in this hypothetical scenario, those neutrals managed to not only make a supported thread become opposed, but by a margin of around 14.5%! That's a huge difference!

What do you two think?
lol voting on changing the voting system wtf

 