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The items on this page mainly affect the Voting event period.
Given that human nature will lead people to put a strong bias towards towards creators or characters that we like, there is a strong tendency for events like X-Day to turn into popularity contests, rather than ratings of a creator's artistic skills. A separate but also troublesome issue is when people are faced with several works they like and have to 'split votes' to just pick one. This year, X-Day will have some procedural differences that should help with this problem, and make the results more fair and accurate.
What will happen is two things. First, rather than having voters 'pick their favorite' from a list of competitors, we will let them give an independant rating to each entry. This way, when you like multiple entries, you can give them both high ratings, and if you don't like any entries, you can give them lower ratings. Essentially, it is like each entry is only competing against itself, much like how olympic skating performances are judged, or how movie review ratings work. The total score for an entry is the average of the ratings given it, and entries with the highest average ratings in a sub-category would win.
The second procedural difference is that the rating you give for an entry will be divided into multiple criteria. For each entry, you will be able to rate separately the artistic quality of this work, and how much you like the subject of the work. For example, if you really like stories about Gambit and Rogue together, but you think a particular entry which does this is poorly written (and makes that type of story look bad), you can express both thoughts accurately without having to compromise one or the other with a single rating. As another example, if you see a drawing where the subject character is one you don't like or is simply repulsive to look at, and yet you can see that the artist does have talents (which would be better redirected), then you can also express these things without compromising yourself.
Note that all votes/ratings are tracked by who did them behind the scenes, which allows a voter to change their rating later if they make a mistake; however, individual votes are not displayed on the site, so you don't have to worry about other people knowing how you voted.
This said, separate from the numerical rating, each voter has the option to leave a text-based comment on the entry (which they may edit later). This allows you to give specific feedback or criticism of a work which a number doesn't convey. However, watch what you say, as all text comments are attributed to their writers, so if you write something here then people will know it is you. The forum is meant mainly for constructive criticism, and is not to be used for anonymous attacks on people.
During voting, you are allowed to change your votes after they are made, should you change your mind or want to make a correction.
Vote splitting will be avoided because you can now vote for multiple items in the same category as your favorites.
An entry may be listed in several places, such as category, date, and creator, to make it easier to find in a crowd, such as by type and by year. However, only one vote or rating is recorded for that item from each voter. This means, when you have given a rating to an entry, that same rating will appear beside the entry under every category that it is listed.
A person may not have multiple accounts for any reason, not the least of which is for ballot stuffing. If you do this you will be disqualified and your votes will be ignored.
A voter may leave comments or feedback for any submission, which is separate from their numerical rating. However, while numerical votes are private, anyone writing comments will be publically credited for them beside the comment. This should encourage anyone to think twice about what they say, since they are generally not anonymous. A person may also update their comments during the voting period.
While the voting period is open, you will only see the votes or ratings or comments or feedback that you yourself had left. This makes it easier to see which entries you already looked at. You will not see the ratings or comments that anyone besides yourself left while the voting period is open, not even the average ratings, and not even the ratings or comments for your own submissions. There are no running totals displayed. Since each person can not see votes or comments that others left during the voting period, then each person can not be influenced by them when placing their own votes or comments.
All of the comments and the average ratings (plus count of people contributing to those ratings), will be shown only after the voting period is over, and no one may change their votes or comments.
You may not tell anyone who you voted for or what ratings you gave until after the voting period is closed, to help avoid influencing them.
Co-ordinated group voting is expressly forbidden. This refers to a practice where multiple voters all vote the same way (meaning, same numbers to same submissions) based on instructions from an individual. While that may be legal in general politics, it is not allowed here. Think for yourself when rating submissions, rather than someone else thinking for you.
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