Voting has been moved to a private poll!

[eseme]

I have just discovered that the default poll settings allow anyone to see which nominee you cast your vote for. I use the same settings as Yasbet did, as she originated the awards and I wanted this poll to be the same as the others. However, I am a firm believer in anonymous voting. I am making a new poll, and will contact those who have voted, to give them a chance to vote again, however they choose, in the new poll.

The new poll is here: http://community.livejournal.com/crowdfunding/259183.html

Comments

[gabrielgadfly.livejournal.com]

Why not just register a separate gmail account for collecting email votes? That way you don't need to worry about spam.

[irksnapple.livejournal.com]

With a free Wordpress.com page, this, the interstitial ads, the extremely narrow-width page format (that obscures most vote totals), the lack of widgets, and the auto-limiting votes and most accessibility to a pre-defined community can be avoided. If you are looking for poll widgets that accept more than just LJ votes, then there's options:

http://bit.ly/eDB7P9

To be honest, these awards don't have much meaning until there's a more open way of nominating and voting (and by that I mean not locked to LJ). The internet is full of solutions to a lot of these problems, it just takes a little research.

[irksnapple.livejournal.com]

Uh... also that top seven in each poll makes no sense if one of the top seven in one poll has more votes than one of the top seven in the other poll. If you can't make a poll with that many options, fine, but you need to look at the votes for all the entries and take the top fourteen out of the total combined, THEN put them into another poll.

It's going to be really hard to get a lot of readers to come vote again, this is a pretty confusing system.

[eseme]

You are right. I'm sorry - long day at work, and I posted too soon after getting home. The top 14 will go on to a new poll.

Unfortunately, I used the same poll settings as the first post, and have just found out that the show the poll results to EVERYONE. That's not right, and I have no idea why those settings would be used. I don't know much about LJ polling, and missed that the default setting is detailed results viewable to everyone. Weblit is a small community - I do not think anyone wants their votes to be viewable to everyone.

I may well have to restart this poll. I am concerned that the existing votes will be lost. Yasbet is not online, and I am not sure what to do.

[eseme]

I have made an entirely new poll, and will be updating the "how voting works section". Thanks for the input.

[eseme]

I am going to use a very old gmail account, for the fiction category. I have just reposted this entire thing, due to the fact that the default poll settings showed EVERYONE who voted for what.

I am terribly sorry about that. Check the new post in a few minutes for a gmail account to use.

[eseme]

Please vote again at the new poll!

I am sorry, this one had no privacy settings at all - I did not realize what that meant when I made it.