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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MThibault" data-source="post: 733181" data-attributes="member: 7971">Sort of a neat idea, but it could lead to an odd situation where a product wins with a 4.5 average based on 50 total votes and another product loses with a 4.4 average based on 1,000 total votes.  That sort of result can be spun in too many directions.  Especially in a peoples choice award, you don't really want an accusation of a "tyranny of the minority".  If you open yourself up to that accusation you might as well just go with a panel of expert or celebrity judges.I suppose a minumum number of non-"I don't know" votes would be necessary to be eligible to win.  But I don't know how one could decide where to draw that line.  A percentage of the total votes?  An arbitrary firm line?  A percentage is going to actually favor the big names because virtually every voter will be familiar with the WotC product so with every vote the cutoff line raises, but one product or another will fall a bit further behind.  How far behind should they be allowed to fall before they are disqualified? Morrus obviously has a better notion of how many total voters to expect, so a firm line might actually be the best way to go -- but if voting spikes up or dips down then the line might have to be shifted at the last minute and that undermines the credibility of the process.</blockquote>