On 17 Mar 2009, at 15:24, Heinrich Apfelmus wrote:
Eelco Lempsink wrote:
Hi there!
I updated a couple of logo versions and ungrouped and regrouped the (former) number 31. Other than that, there was nothing standing in the way of the voting to begin imho, so I started up the competition.
By now, I suppose everybody should have received their ballot. If you think you should have received it but didn't, please report it, I can resend the invitation. Also, for people not directly subscribed to the haskell-cafe mailing list, you can still send ballot requests until the end of the competition (March 24, 12:00 UTC). Make sure the message contains 'haskell logo voting ballot request' (e.g. in the subject).
Depending on the winner of this voting round we can decide whether we need to continue with variations. Jared Updike already offered to donate a bit of time to help create several variations. But for now, good luck with sorting those options! :)
Thanks for organizing this, finally I can choose ... Oh my god! How am I supposed to make a vote?
I can barely remember 3 of the 113 logos, let alone memorize that #106 is the narwhal. There are lots of very good or just good candidates and I would like to order them all to my liking, but without instant visual feedback on the voting ballot, this is a hopeless task.
Since I have about 10 minutes to spare for voting, I'm just going to pick 5 candidates at random and order these? Actually, I think I prefer to be completely paralyzed by the overwhelming choice instead and not vote at all.
Alternatively, it seems that it's possible to upload rankings from a file. But which format? And is there a zip file with the logo proposals so I can try to arrange them via drag&drop in some picture gallery application?
A simple majority vote is clearly inadequate for this vote, but I'm afraid that without assisting technology (instant and visual feedback), the voting process will more or less deteriorate to that due to the difficulty of creating quality input votes.
I have to agree that the UI for voting is not the best I've ever seen. On the other hand, it's pretty easy to select the few logos that you like, and push them all to the top, select the ones you'd accept, and push them up just below, and finally select the ones you absolutely don't like and push them all the way down. That at least is what I did. Bob