Riley ,'Lessons'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Quick questions on the presentation of the vote results tonight -
Can I put the results in a t table without causing a problem? Yes, I will close the tag.
My understanding is that the % for Yes/No does not include No Preference votes. Example: A vote of Yes 40, No 10 and No Preference 50 would be Yes wins with 80%. btw, no vote looks like that.
I plan to show mean, median and mode just because. Should I list the raw numbers for those who are curious?
Can I put the results in a <table> without causing a problem? Yes, I will close the tag.
Shouldn't be a problem. That's how Jengod(?) presented the results of the first ballot. Just try to limit how much we'll need to scroll right.
My understanding is that the % for Yes/No does not include No Preference votes. Example: A vote of Yes 40, No 10 and No Preference 50 would be Yes wins with 80%. btw, no vote looks like that.
Correctomundo.
My no preference voting was in protest out of my frustration w/the ballot process. . . I mean, why shouldn't you be able to vote on only one or two issues?
You can vote that way in normal elections.
You mean, apart from "no preference", Sumi?
I think the problem (which I only just realized) is that I didn't allow a "no preference" on the fill-in-the-box questions. My bad. Too late to fix it now.
t edit but, again, it says at the bottom that if you have trouble with the form, to just email your ballot.
But, the problems I was having with the ballot were so frustrating. It made me really not want to bother. Can we do it differently next time? Am I the only person who had that problem?
Can we do it differently next time?
Yeah, you can email your ballot. Which is what we were expecting everyone to do until I volunteered to create a form that would make it simpler for most people.
Sorry -- that came out meaner than I intended.
In future, I won't bother.
Sumi, I'm sorry you had trouble with the ballot. We're still sort of feeling our way through this process, and indeed, the no preference option is there so that you don't have to record an opinion on every issue. Jon, and the rest of us, didn't think about what that would mean in the instances where a number had to be input, but it was an oversight. But someone suggested when you were having trouble earlier that you just email Laura and tell her what you wanted your votes (or non-votes) to be. Wouldn't that solve the problem?