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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Conaill" data-source="post: 2404749" data-attributes="member: 1264">See my post on the previous page:These two approaches will likely give very different results for second place winners. Doing it the way the voting specs recommend will tend to give more variety in the winners, whereas the method suggested in the launch screen description will tend to give a #2 which is more similar to the #1.A little example perhaps... Let's say the ballot only has three significant candidates: one great d20 product, one great White Wolf product, and one mediocre d20 product. Let's further assume there are more d20 players on EN World than White Wolf players, and that most players into d20 don't tend to play WW and vice versa. The #1 winner will be obvious in this case: it will be the excellent d20 product. Now let's look at what would happen if we follow the voting specs to determine the #2 winner. We keep eliminating candidates until only two remain, so the last product eliminated will be the mediocre d20 product, because that one will receive the least #1 votes (because most d20 players will vote for the excellent product instead). Result: the excellent WW product wins 2nd place.Now let's see what would happen if we follow the description on the launch screen. After we've found the #1 winner (the excellent d20 product), we eliminate this product and rerun the process again. Now we get a run-off between one mediocre d20 product and one excellent WW product. Since all those d20-only players now get to vote for the mediocre d20 product, that one will win 2nd place.End result: the method described in the voting specs will tend to "spread out the happiness" by awarding the second prize to those voters who saw their favorite product lose out on the first prize. Personally, I think that is a GOOD thing. The method described on the launch screen will tend to give all the prizes to the largest voter faction - which I think is a BAD thing.</blockquote>

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