Quote from youme on February 23, 2008, 8:46 pm

Although I was originaly against the idea of having twp staff enter and it not be all secret, listening to you guys discussing it makes me think:
"stuff it, we know theyre a mod/admin/god if we think their map is best we'll vote for them and they will deserve to win"

Quote from Megadude on February 23, 2008, 8:59 pm

iamafractal wrote:

ok that defeats the purpose, which is to allow moderators to also post maps, and to keep things fair.

Everything is already fair. No-one has anything to gain from trying to suck up to a moderator by voting for them. Everyone will vote for whoever has the best map. If a moderator posts a bad map, people won't vote for it. The only reason anyone would think that moderators would get an unfair advantage is paranoia.

The only way this system could be broken, is if someone joined a contest, and persuaded a whole load of their friends to join the forums just to vote for their map, but I think this method would be spotted quite quickly.

Quote from iamafractal on February 23, 2008, 10:23 pm

and that will happen so why not just keep it simple and anonymous.

Quote from Hober on February 24, 2008, 3:00 am

This is largely a straw-man argument. I don't think that anyone really believes that they can "suck up" to a mod by voting for them. Because, you know, the votes are anonymous.

As for worry the mods stuffing the ballot box or any other form of misconduct that causes them to win unfairly: Msleeper said he would pass up the prize anyways, and I'm going to enter a map contest when hell freezes over.

Quote from iamafractal on February 24, 2008, 5:04 am

its not just for mods, but for friends, or "people you like."

but lets face it. its a small enough community that anybody could say, "vote for my map! its #6"

and not only that but as i said, people already have discernible styles.

Quote from Grudge on February 24, 2008, 6:07 am

Can we stop this discussion? msleeper has already stated he will not go into this anonymous method a few posts ago.

msleeper wrote:

I can't express how much of a pain in the ass doing things that way would be for me. Once again, I prefer automated processes for contests, voting, so on. I see where you're coming from Fractal but really I don't think it is going to be that big of a deal. I'm not going to hand out Supporter for anyone who votes for me or some shit, and really if I won I'd probably give the prize to whoever came in 2nd.

Quote from iamafractal on February 24, 2008, 9:46 am

Grudge wrote:

Can we stop this discussion? msleeper has already stated he will not go into this anonymous method a few posts ago.

if somebody writes the script, then it won't be a pain in the ass. it'll be easy.

Quote from msleeper on February 24, 2008, 2:20 pm

This topic is getting way off subject.

No, I am not going to write an entirely new voting system when phpBB has one built in.

No, I am not going to write a whole new download database just so that contest uploads will be anonymous.

This thread is about people willing to donate money if they want a brand new video card as a prize. I am locking this thread, will unlock in a few days when people get their shit together.

Quote from msleeper on February 25, 2008, 2:50 pm

Maybe we can keep this thread on topic now.