Desperate Measures Duel Discussion Options

[Amunet]

A talent agency for modeling and acting ... they aren't giving up on me but it costs a lot lol

Yeah, I understand ... I guess competition is good for me lol cause I don't feel like much competition lol.

[lupinsmyman]

Thats cool, Amunet! I was in a play in 3rd grade. That's about as far as my acting skill goes.


*Well I've got one submission out of the way. I'm going to see if I can get this second one down before bed. (I.E. on Conan O'Brien commercial breaks)

[McGonagall's Cat]

Hi all!

'Not sure what happened to the Department of Mysteries, but Round Two is now officially closed and the Poll for it is officially opened!

You guys are amazing! I love all your entries.

And Lupins managed to get 2 in! *happy dance*


Good luck!

Vote early!

[lupinsmyman]

Wooo! Good luck to everyone! Its going to be hard to decide which to vote on.

[Amunet]

Whooh! I enjoy reading the stories, but I can't help comparing them to mine (either good or bad) and it gets on my nerves sometimes XD I annoy myself

I wish everyone the best on the competition

Hey McG - We aren't allowed to vote for ourselves are we?

[McGonagall's Cat]

Hey McG - We aren't allowed to vote for ourselves are we?

It isn't very ethical to vote for one's self.
If you were writing at a site with mostly very poor writers, it could be possible that the other subs were actually abysmal and one's own was the best of the possibilities. Such is not the case here.
Slytherins greed would have them vote for their own, Hufflepuffs’ sense of caring would have them vote for anyone but their own, Gryffindors honour and Ravenclaw's acuity would have them vote for the best possible choice. I would hope you wear Red and Gold or Blue and Bronze, but it is your integrity you are showing to the world.

Agrippa created the voting booths to block people from voting for themselves…. and cheating. However, those booths have some intricate coding and during the summer duel an unethical person went through and intentionally skewed the numbers. None of Staff could figure out how to remove the bogus votes without crashing the voting for that whole Duel - and had to figure the scores out by hand (which is also up for mistakes and allegations of unfairness). So this time we went back to the Board's Poll System. It doesn't allow the constructive comments, and doesn't "rank" all the subs. It can't tell us a lot of things that would be nice to know.

No matter which we method we use, there are potential short comings.

Would you prefer a voting booth for Rounds 2 and 3? We could easily add it instead of the Poll. Let me or the Department of Mysteries know soon (sooner than that)!



Comments?

[lupinsmyman]

ha ha I was trying to be a good ferret and not vote for myslef... Oh well. We'll see what happens.

I think the current voting mehod is fine.

[Amunet]

I was just asking, I havn't been voting for myself, I would feel wrong doing that ... like if I won, it wouldn't be fairly.

The current system is fine We can comment in these discussions and we are only allowed to vote once so I think it's a good system And I hope that person was banned!

[McGonagall's Cat]

Oh yeah. That person was nuked, as was a supposed 'sister' and 'friend'.

Either one signed up as three different members, or conned their friends into signing up and had those persons' log-in info. All were banned to the max.
[The site can block quite a bit of possible trickery in signing up, so those three were blocked several different ways. If they try to sign up from a computer at school or somewhere else near them, or using a different name, or other sneaky things, they get stopped in their tracks.]

Ferrets are too good for that!!!

[Amunet]

Wow that's pretty cool

*jumps up and down* I'm excited, someone voted for me

[lupinsmyman]

Yeah, I remember that...That was back at the last summer duel right? I don't really remember.

I keep running back to the polls every ten minutes with crossed fingers, lol! I'm such a dork.


I think we've got the best group of fanficcers right here.

[Amunet]

I keep running back to the polls every ten minutes with crossed fingers, lol! I'm such a dork.

Haha I do the same exact thing, don't worry

[timeturner]

Wow! Great jobs on the subs for round 2. I loved them all and had a hard time voting. I managed to pick one though. Of course, now there is a four-way tie!

Don't forget to vote--because in this case, your vote definitely counts!

[Amunet]

Lol crazy ... so, what happens in case of a four way tie?

[McGonagall's Cat]

GAK! It's looking like it will be a 4 way tie (one of the other problems with this type of voting)... Quite possibly, if we run a second round of voting ( a run off) we would probably end up in the same place, so that won't work.

If we do something random (pick a number between one and ten), that settles in on one sub to continue our story, but is that a logical way to overcome the problem?


GAK!

OK... What do you guys think we should do?