Feedback Voting System Problems.

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Read the first post & choose your answer!

  • I'd like to be able to vote on every idea if I so choose.

    Votes: 4 16.7%

  • I think it's fine the way it is being restriced to 25 votes.

    Votes: 20 83.3%
  • Total voters
    24
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The first problem with the new Feedback voting system is when you first get your 25 votes, most people will probably use them all up in the first few pages & then not bother to go through the rest of the 370+ ideas to see what's worth voting on as they've run out. This means that we're kind of encouraged to not look at some great ideas that are languishing in obscurity near the bottom of the list.

The second problem with having only 25 votes is that there are hundreds of ideas for GT5, there are many issues some may want to vote on & can't! I think it would be better if we could choose to vote or not to vote on every idea, then we'd get a clearer idea as to the importance of each one, rather than knowing that some are way down the list just cos we all ran out of votes!



Answer these 2 questions:

Did you look at every idea before voting?

Are there more than 25 ideas that you'd want to vote for?


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VBR
I think it would be better if we could choose to vote or not to vote on every idea, then we'd get a clearer idea as to the importance of each one
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No, then everything would have an even number votes as people wouldn't actually prioritise their votes.


VBR
Did you look at every idea before voting?
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No, but I did look at every idea as I was voting, and even redacted several votes to move to features that I'd like to see more.


VBR
Are there more than 25 ideas that you'd want to vote for?
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Yes, but there are 25 ideas that I'd prefer to see over the 370+ other ideas. I prioritised my votes as I saw fit.



According to Princeton:
vote - express one's preference for a candidate or for a measure or resolution;

If we could vote for everything it would not be preferential.
 
mickismick
No, then everything would have an even number votes as people wouldn't actually prioritise their votes.

If we could vote for everything it would not be preferential.
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That's wrong simply because not everyone would vote for everything & that's my point, we'd get to see what everyone thought of every idea instead. Just becasue we could vote for everything doesn't mean we all would for instance, not everyone who look or posts in a thread with a poll always votes.


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PS: If we don't have the option to vote on everything in the first place, then we can't even indicate out preference by choosing whether to or not! :lol:
 
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What SOMEBODY should do is to make this voting only as a first-step foundation for real voting.

Existing proposals should be gathered, systematized and then lined up in 50 most prominent ones with option to vote again, using the same 25-votes system.

It would be a great work to do, but only with that we could really know the real results.

With system like this, proposal like "More Chrome Silver" or "We Need Chrome Gold" could easily climb very high on the list just because they sound attractive, although they add nothing to the game and should not be considered as real entrant to possible features.
 
I agree that the voting system favours the more popular ideas.

Rarely will most people browse through all ideas especially when many are duplicated or ideas like "dude let's have all cars premiums and more tracks and all for free, and... and..."

People need to search before vote in order avoid duplication and also need to make their requests clear, specific and realistic.

You people ARE NOT going to have all cars premiums and B-Spec IS NOT going to be discarded, and airbags are not going to be implemented in the game.

Vote for something more "do-able" and realistic.

Maybe Jordan needs to sort the ideas alphabetically (rather than by votes number) when voting and then give us in a separate page the list with most voted ones. Just an idea.
 
I get what VBR is saying actually. Maybe a 1 - 5 system for each idea, so voting 1 would mean you strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree, with a sliding scale between those two statements to make up the other numbers.
 
amar212
What SOMEBODY should do is to make this voting only as a first-step foundation for real voting.

Existing proposals should be gathered, systematized and then lined up in 50 most prominent ones with option to vote again, using the same 25-votes system.

It would be a great work to do, but only with that we could really know the real results.

With system like this, proposal like "More Chrome Silver" or "We Need Chrome Gold" could easily climb very high on the list just because they sound attractive, although they add nothing to the game and should not be considered as real entrant to possible features.
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Amen, well put. The problem is that people casting their votes now will just see the topics on top anyway, and thus exaggerating those votes even further.

New topics never get seen and will die irrespective of their merit.

Also, car-and track-wishlists should be excluded, in my opinion. There's already a poll for those somewhere else.
 
25 votes keeps the crud out. This way, you only vote for what you most want. If you find something better, you can take votes away from what you already voted on and vote instead for something else if you find it later on.

Everything I had an idea for, I searched, found it, and voted. Some had few votes, others many. Better night lighting to more wheel options (and wheel diameters, widths, and offsets) to more race restrictions online, I voted for things that might actually make it. You should all, too.
 
If everyone could vote for everything... well, imagine how that would turn out for your poll.

50/50 split.
 

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