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<blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 4430341" data-attributes="member: 3087">&gt;We have tried to honor later posts expressing a change of &gt;opinion, yes, but if the automated vote count at the top of &gt;the thread is inaccurate, why have it? It's just misleading.Because people usually get it right?Because it's rare for votes to be off by only one or two?----------&gt; So it's not actually misleading.Because it's a lot less work for us?Because people can casually check and see what's going on (so it's more accessible)?Because larger numbers of votes are easily seen at a glance?Because we like representing complex things with simple pretty pictures?Because we've used it so far and nobody's complained?I'm not saying that we have to keep the current system, but it has benefits too.Oh, and one more: Because changing it right now would be more work? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />[d]--[/d]I agree with your assessment of the two types of votes.Personally I'm inclined to say that once we start we can vote about voting and see if people want to take the second YES/NO system once those sorts of polls become common (i.e when we start playing).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Graf, post: 4430341, member: 3087"] >We have tried to honor later posts expressing a change of >opinion, yes, but if the automated vote count at the top of >the thread is inaccurate, why have it? It's just misleading. Because people usually get it right? Because it's rare for votes to be off by only one or two? ----------> So it's not actually misleading. Because it's a lot less work for us? Because people can casually check and see what's going on (so it's more accessible)? Because larger numbers of votes are easily seen at a glance? Because we like representing complex things with simple pretty pictures? Because we've used it so far and nobody's complained? I'm not saying that we [B]have [/B]to keep the current system, but it has benefits too. Oh, and one more: Because changing it right now would be more work? ;) [d]--[/d] I agree with your assessment of the two types of votes. Personally I'm inclined to say that once we start we can vote about voting and see if people want to take the second YES/NO system once those sorts of polls become common (i.e when we start playing). [/QUOTE]

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