Have you ever wanted to know ResetEra's favorite thing of the year? Of the month? Did you ever have a question like this for a specific thread/community? Well, have we got something for you.
Introducing Ballots
Previously if you wanted to run something like Movie of the Year or Anime of the Year or anything like that, you had to take a lot of time out of your day and go through the thread manually (or use a scraper that needs very specific formatting requirements and is sometimes unreliable). Now? Now you can just ask the staff to set a vote up and Ballots will do the rest.
Due to the way Ballots counts votes, ranked choice voting is unfortunately not feasible. However, it is overall a great deal more convenient and full-featured than the bots and scrapers we relied on before.
Here's how it works:
As you can see, with Ballots active the thread now runs a constant countdown until the end of the vote tally. This countdown is available at the top and bottom of each page, so it is impossible to miss. If need be, the length can be adjusted at our discretion (if members are having a hard time making their choices, for example).
If we zoom in on the Quick Reply Box at the bottom of the page, we will see a small button marked [Vote]. If you click that you will be brought to the section of your post where you input the games you want to vote for.
It is a simple fill-in field that will create another fill-in once text appears in it. Just click to the next box and fill in your choices.
There is a special feature here though.
You'll be able to see the choices that everyone has made so far. So if someone has already voted for the one of the games on your list, all you need to do is find it and check the box in order to vote for it!
When you're all done a post will be created that looks like this. No more worrying about how to format your posts, Ballots will do that for you.
When you are putting in how you feel about the games on your list, just put your thoughts in the basic reply box. They will appear above your list and will not affect how your vote is counted at all.
Introducing Ballots
Previously if you wanted to run something like Movie of the Year or Anime of the Year or anything like that, you had to take a lot of time out of your day and go through the thread manually (or use a scraper that needs very specific formatting requirements and is sometimes unreliable). Now? Now you can just ask the staff to set a vote up and Ballots will do the rest.
Due to the way Ballots counts votes, ranked choice voting is unfortunately not feasible. However, it is overall a great deal more convenient and full-featured than the bots and scrapers we relied on before.
Here's how it works:
As you can see, with Ballots active the thread now runs a constant countdown until the end of the vote tally. This countdown is available at the top and bottom of each page, so it is impossible to miss. If need be, the length can be adjusted at our discretion (if members are having a hard time making their choices, for example).
If we zoom in on the Quick Reply Box at the bottom of the page, we will see a small button marked [Vote]. If you click that you will be brought to the section of your post where you input the games you want to vote for.
It is a simple fill-in field that will create another fill-in once text appears in it. Just click to the next box and fill in your choices.
There is a special feature here though.
You'll be able to see the choices that everyone has made so far. So if someone has already voted for the one of the games on your list, all you need to do is find it and check the box in order to vote for it!
When you're all done a post will be created that looks like this. No more worrying about how to format your posts, Ballots will do that for you.
When you are putting in how you feel about the games on your list, just put your thoughts in the basic reply box. They will appear above your list and will not affect how your vote is counted at all.
Information
If you would like to make use of Ballots to run a vote of your own, either in a new or existing thread, please contact me directly by PM and I can set it up for you.
The first vote we will be launching with Ballots will be the Game of the Decade vote, September 3rd at 12 Noon EST!
The first vote we will be launching with Ballots will be the Game of the Decade vote, September 3rd at 12 Noon EST!
