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Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 03-08-21
Replies: 178
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Posted By Yoda
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You guys are awesome for helping, but since Thursday volunteered so selflessly they get to use a super secret custom image upload tool to help them.
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 03-08-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
Re: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type

Update: I've got a general version of the ballot submission tool working, we're doing some light testing now, and hopefully we should be ready to get started this week. :)

The ballot tool will...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 03-02-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
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Alrighty, so this is confirmed: Foreign films win.

Thursday and I will coordinate, I'll work on the ballot submission tool (started the other day), and hopefully we'll have something up in a bit....
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-26-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
Re: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type

Yeah, PM me for specifics. I think we'd want a minimum of a week for organizational stuff, once the poll closes, before posting the thread and getting things started.
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-26-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
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A fine question.

I'd lobby for both, and in fact that makes for some interesting ideas on presentation...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-24-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
Yeah, no worries, there'll obviously be some...

Yeah, no worries, there'll obviously be some testing and time for feedback once the tool's ready to go. Short version is: same as autocomplete for favorites/movies page/reviews, but with an option to...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-24-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
Re: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type

Oh, it would definitely be just me and the host.

And yeah, it would use an autocomplete, along with a special tool to submit anything that doesn't come up properly that way.
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-24-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
Re: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type

I'm open to input on that, but my assumption is they'd just enter them and I'd build out a little thing you can use to see the results as they come in. But I'm not sure if people really like some of...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-23-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
Re: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type

Big second to the "prepare days in advance" thing. Even if it's just once a week, you get into a good rhythm.
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-23-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
Re: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type

True that you don't have to the graphics, though I'd say in nearly all cases those people have been one and the same. But yes, not required, and you can ask people to PM you general concepts, even,...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-23-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
Re: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type

Cool, thank you!

The good news is you don't have to use a spreadsheet, I'm going to build a tool for ballot counting, and I'll walk you through any code and image upload processes (and for the...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-23-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
Re: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type

Bump.

Five days left, and yes, we're going to wait until that deadline, both because I set it in advance and it wouldn't be fair to change, and also because nobody's volunteered to help run this...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-22-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
Re: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type

It varies kind of a lot. We did about three months for the Refresh list, but Harry Lime's 90s list was something like five.

I think a few months is about right, personally. Not sure if something...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-21-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
Re: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type

Regardless, I'm calling it a night here. It's fine if not everyone likes this voting method, and I'm fine hearing the complaints. Hopefully my responses assuage them, but if not, I still need to...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-21-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
Unfortunately I think we're probably going in...

Unfortunately I think we're probably going in circles now; I can only repeat my previous responses to this point:

1) You can't inflate a category by sub-dividing it. Comedy would not suddenly have...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-21-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
I agree ranked choice would be even better, it's...

I agree ranked choice would be even better, it's just a lot more work for (in my opinion) a very modest improvement.

Anyway, the point is not that there aren't differences (as you articulated...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-21-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
Hmm, maybe. But humor me just a bit longer,...

Hmm, maybe. But humor me just a bit longer, because I think we can shed a bit more light on this yet:

You say that you'd use first-place votes if your goal was to find the "actual winner." But...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-21-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
Respectfully, yes, I believe that assumption is...

Respectfully, yes, I believe that assumption is incorrect. You can subdivide any category (or not), and all categories already have divisions whether we talk about them or not, but you can't give the...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-21-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
If thinking a voting system worked best in one...

If thinking a voting system worked best in one context obligated us to think it must in every other, wouldn't you have been obligated to object before now? The ballots are weighted and contain...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-21-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
We are. The question is how to determine "most." ...

We are. The question is how to determine "most."

Imagine 30% of people put Comedy first, but the other 70% have it last. And imagine 29% have Foreign first and the other 71% have it second. In...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-21-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
I'm having trouble following this argument,...

I'm having trouble following this argument, because it began by insinuating Foreign had some kind of unfair advantage, even though most of what you're saying now seems to suggest it has a...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-20-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
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Definitely, but I'm still willing (would like to, even) address the conceptual questions, since this may very well come up again.
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-20-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
I'm gonna reproduce an earlier response because...

I'm gonna reproduce an earlier response because it's actually the core of the idea here, even though I think we're not really talking about it:


This is the logic, in a nutshell. With most people...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-20-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
I'd have like to have seen that, too, but only...

I'd have like to have seen that, too, but only because I'm curious, and not because I think it would produce a better/more amenable result.


I don't think that's right. By this logic you could...
Forum: Movie Forums Site Stuff 02-19-21
Replies: 178
Poll: Next Countdown Poll: Genre/Type
Posted By Yoda
Gonna echo this, in two ways: First, that...

Gonna echo this, in two ways:

First, that it's plausible someone might wanna help with just the artwork.

Second, that the integration I setup last time could allow you to draw heavily from all...

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