It would reduce the incidences of "donkey votes" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_vote), which is when people vote according to how the candidates are listed on the paper. In the DSF awards case, the nominees at the top would have an unfair advantage simply because they appear at the top of the list. I would guess this is emphasised by the Juno player - I imagine a lot of people would listen to, say, the first 3 or 4 tracks, and then vote. So the people down the bottom of the list would suffer due to being down the bottom where not as many voters will listen to them. Even MORE damaging would be the fact that you can see how many votes each nominess has before voting has finished. This would tend to skew future votes towards nominees that already have a lot of votes - for example if there are three nominees clearly in the lead, I think a lot of people would listen to their three tracks only, and then only choose between those three tracks, which would put those three further in the lead, which would increase the tendency for the next voter to do the same thing...Maccaveli wrote:Wait, what? How would that be democratic?grooki wrote:In the interests of democracy, it would be good if in each category the list of nominees was randomized... not hatin, just sayin
What I am proposing is that someone write a function which randomises the names so that no one has the advatage of being at the top, both on the list and in the Juno player. And definitely get rid of the bars showing how many votes each nominee has before the close of voting.
I know it's just a bit of fun, but why not have a fair bit of fun?
