I’m looking to change up the way I do these polls moving forward, and I am curious what y’all think…
previous format
(i will edit this if people propose other up or downsides)
first round:
- Thursday - Friday (24hrs)
- everyone votes on any and all cards they feel should be included in the final poll (unlimited votes)
second round:
- Friday - Sunday (48hrs)
- everyone can select up to 5 options as their favorites
upsides:
- limited votes in the final poll makes each vote matter more/be more reflective of people’s true favorites.
- More suspense
downsides:
- less engagement for the final poll than the first
other side effects of this format
- seeing what cards don’t make the cut for the top 25 (only relevant for pokemon that have a relatively large card pool)
- seeing which cards made it to the final poll, but then received little to no votes when the limitation of only 5 votes was placed
theorized format moving forward:
(i will edit this if people propose other up or downsides)
one round
- Thursday or Friday - Sunday (runs through the weekend, ends on Sunday regardless)
- everyone votes on just their favorites (unlimited votes)
potential upsides:
- more engagement for the final tally
- the results would be more reflective of people’s actual favorites instead of token votes going to classics over other cards that people like, but perhaps have less prominence/priority over their limited allocation.
- being able to do mons like charizard and eventually pikachu in one mega poll instead of having to do many rounds to narrow down the lists(mainly with pikachu)
potential downsides:
- less suspense (could be remedied by a longer voting window potentially)
- more votes for cards that people like, but wouldn’t actually choose to be among their favorites
other side effects of this format
- different format means (likely) different results than what we’ve experienced so far, but only compared to previous polls
- less work on my end
