DEG
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I seriously would think about a way to implement an effective and fair blind voting, there's a reason it is used everywhere whether being on Suspect Tests on Smogon or Political Decisions in the real world. If the theory that "Page One" OMs get more votes than "Page Two" OMs is the problem, how inversing the order is going to really fix that? The result will still be the same, it's like a dog running around a tree chasing its own tail starting from the right but has now shifted to the left. Will it catch its tail? No.
I know doing blind voting takes a lot of work but that's the only way we can assure equality between all OMs, we can't really reach equality without sacrifice and hard work. I have some methods to achieve that but it really takes some work and needs dedicated persons for that.
1) Copying the Suspect Test voting method, that is the best solution to blind voting but requires way too much work. At the end of the month a thread will be created in the OM subforum for people to give out OMs they wish to be eligible for voting, it will be public and everyone will see people nominating the metas. Second step is to create a private thread that prevents other from seeing your post such as the Suspect Test thread, this of course takes a lot of work to keep up and count and people will only be able to vote for one OM, so I have other solutions
2) The first step will be the same but the second step will be different. A sub-subforum will be created (Just like the OM submissions one) and all nominated OMs will be posted as threads, a page there can handle up to 50+~ OMs so going to page two shouldn't be a problem. The users will comment in the thread they want to vote in and it will be hidden pretty much like the suspect test thread, but like this the host will be able to easily count votes for each OM (Seeing forums #post then remove the # of illegible voters and post the results on the title of the thread, it also can be handled by two+ people so it will be a faster way to go.)
3) Same as the system right now but if that's possible the likes to be hidden from public and only accessible to the host (I highly doubt that's allowed on the forums but it's worth a mention)
To be honest if I was to support an idea, I'd go with my #2 idea. It's an easy blind voting system with no downside (Maybe except more complex for newer voters.)
I know doing blind voting takes a lot of work but that's the only way we can assure equality between all OMs, we can't really reach equality without sacrifice and hard work. I have some methods to achieve that but it really takes some work and needs dedicated persons for that.
1) Copying the Suspect Test voting method, that is the best solution to blind voting but requires way too much work. At the end of the month a thread will be created in the OM subforum for people to give out OMs they wish to be eligible for voting, it will be public and everyone will see people nominating the metas. Second step is to create a private thread that prevents other from seeing your post such as the Suspect Test thread, this of course takes a lot of work to keep up and count and people will only be able to vote for one OM, so I have other solutions
2) The first step will be the same but the second step will be different. A sub-subforum will be created (Just like the OM submissions one) and all nominated OMs will be posted as threads, a page there can handle up to 50+~ OMs so going to page two shouldn't be a problem. The users will comment in the thread they want to vote in and it will be hidden pretty much like the suspect test thread, but like this the host will be able to easily count votes for each OM (Seeing forums #post then remove the # of illegible voters and post the results on the title of the thread, it also can be handled by two+ people so it will be a faster way to go.)
3) Same as the system right now but if that's possible the likes to be hidden from public and only accessible to the host (I highly doubt that's allowed on the forums but it's worth a mention)
To be honest if I was to support an idea, I'd go with my #2 idea. It's an easy blind voting system with no downside (Maybe except more complex for newer voters.)