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:The "amusement" you speak of is brought by the ''results'' and the mere act of sharing one's opinion. The problem therein lies with not having a set principle as to how voting occurs. If you are to allow percentage-based votes such as %49.9999 Yes, then you are opening a floodgate that would make counting the ballots nearly impossible, or at least irrationally difficult. This is why you set simple positions to vote with such as: '''Agree''' for people who agree with whatever, '''Disagree''' for those who disagree, and '''Neutral''' for those whom either cannot decide or are merely stating that they will change to one of the logical positions pending the finale of the voting process. You are going to end up opening a bureaucratic mess with greater-quantum voting >_> --[[User:Piratehunter|<span style="font-family:times new roman; font-size:12pt"><font color="Black">Pιʀaτзнυητзʀ</font></span>]] ([[User talk:Piratehunter|Talk]]•[[Special:Contributions/Piratehunter|Contribs]]) 22:03, 29 May 2011 (EDT) | :The "amusement" you speak of is brought by the ''results'' and the mere act of sharing one's opinion. The problem therein lies with not having a set principle as to how voting occurs. If you are to allow percentage-based votes such as %49.9999 Yes, then you are opening a floodgate that would make counting the ballots nearly impossible, or at least irrationally difficult. This is why you set simple positions to vote with such as: '''Agree''' for people who agree with whatever, '''Disagree''' for those who disagree, and '''Neutral''' for those whom either cannot decide or are merely stating that they will change to one of the logical positions pending the finale of the voting process. You are going to end up opening a bureaucratic mess with greater-quantum voting >_> --[[User:Piratehunter|<span style="font-family:times new roman; font-size:12pt"><font color="Black">Pιʀaτзнυητзʀ</font></span>]] ([[User talk:Piratehunter|Talk]]•[[Special:Contributions/Piratehunter|Contribs]]) 22:03, 29 May 2011 (EDT) | ||
::The available options are vote for option A or B, and half vote for option A or B, with the vote value being 1 and 0.5 respectively. This isn't complicated mathematics and won't lead to an irrationally difficult ballot to figure out (surely those handling the ballot could solve this math in their head). | |||
::Keep in mind half votes already exist, so by not forbidding "good votes" to be placed in there for a few who may want to, we're not adding another level of complexity when that level already exists, especially when the vast majority of the users aren't going to place their votes in there anyway. | |||
::And for one more thing, how are we going to punish "good votes" placed intentionally in half votes? Move them to full votes? While it may not be what the voter intended, it's not really a punishment in terms of the vote value. Or would we instead discount such votes all together? Doing the latter would give them a harsher punishment than the lazy who vote incorrectly, who of which are actually disruptive to the Smash Arena and create unnecessary work for others, unlike those who placed correctly done votes in half votes. | |||
::As for my proposal, we just amend rule 10 to where its lettering does not forbid correct votes being placed in half votes. We're not adding another vote option, we aren't going to add "quarter votes" or other vote options with complicated decimal values. In the end, we will have plain old 1.0 votes where the vast majority of votes go, and the half votes where bad votes go, as well as the votes of the few who feel their votes should be half votes for whatever reason. The option already exists, why would it disrupt the Smash Arena/SmashWiki to allow intentional votes there, and why create unnecessary extra work for the userbase when there are going to people out there who will break the rules to intentionally vote in this option? | |||
::If votes must be either worth 1 or 0, than remove the half vote option all together, and instead make all incorrect votes worth 0. <span style="font-family:Edwardian Script ITC; font-size:12pt">[[User:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Omega</span>]] [[User talk:Omega Tyrant|<span style="color:forestgreen">Tyrant</span>]]</span> [[Image: TyranitarMS.png ]] 22:38, 29 May 2011 (EDT) | |||
