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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronLoeb" data-source="post: 1723184" data-attributes="member: 4382">I agree. OPOV, as I said, is a lousy system -- but at least it favors the majority opinion; the current system favors the minority opinion. Approval voting would be much better, you are right. You vote for everything on the list you think deserves the award and every vote is equally weighted. The problem with it is that it still benefits the people who want to game the system, making the votes of people who vote for only one product count more because they aren't "dilluting" their vote. If you do approval voting where you have to vote for at least three products, that would solve that gameability problem, but at that point you might as well use ranked votes with points attached (see below).My first post was very, very long. So, in case folks skipped it due to extreme verbosity, here are the suggestions in brief:1) Close voting only to EN World members to limit outside "partisans" who are more likely to desire to manipulate the voting results ("I've come here only to vote for company X because I want company X to win"). 2) Change the current voting system, which is emminently gameable and makes it not only possible, but likely, for people on the fringe with extreme opinions (positive or negative) to skew the results. Instead, go to ranked point-based voting system where you must rank at least 3 of the 5 products. Your number 1 choice gets 5 points, number 2 gets 4 points, etc. The reasons this would work better are argued in my previous inexcusably long post.I believe these two changes would go a long way toward making the awards more unquestionably in line with the EN World community's opinion and would make it harder for outside influencers to radically alter the results.</blockquote>

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