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PoptartProdigy said:
The problem with the way that poll was run is that with a vote as split as this, narrowing it down to the top three while allowing people to say, "actually, I'd prefer something else," is always going to result in what happened. If we want to whittle it down like was attempted, we need to not allow people to vote for "nothing." Otherwise we'll just go in circles.
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That's true. We could tell this would happen from the first poll results. On the other hand, we see that Vee has more support than the next two options combined. That's pretty good actually. Also, if we use a popular option as a middle name (one that works as a middle name, like Victoria), that might help please people too.

EDIT:^ That's also a good point.

Also maybe preferential voting would help?
 
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justinkal said:
If doing something like that, you need to narrow it down in stages, not go down to three choices right away. If there's 20 choices at the start, there's going to be plenty of people who prefer the choices in slots 4-6 over 1-3, but didn't vote for 4-6 because they like 12, 15, and 19 best.
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I agree, but even with that you still need to cut out the "nothing" vote. Eventually, you'll still end up with a lot of people being disappointed no matter how slowly you specify. Honestly, I wouldn't even have bothered narrowing it down. Voting on SV rarely ends up being a majority anyway given that pluralities tend to take all under most voting schemes, so I don't honestly get why we even bothered with the narrowed vote.
 
Look, just give the list to Madoka and Homura and ask them to name us. Allow then to make up something too. Tell them it would have special significance to us if they named us.
 
PoptartProdigy said:
I agree, but even with that you still need to cut out the "nothing" vote. Eventually, you'll still end up with a lot of people being disappointed no matter how slowly you specify. Honestly, I wouldn't even have bothered narrowing it down. Voting on SV rarely ends up being a majority anyway given that pluralities tend to take all under most voting schemes, so I don't honestly get why we even bothered with the narrowed vote.
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Reread my wording. I was saying that if you cut out the "none of the above" option, you need to narrow the list down in stages.
 
PoptartProdigy said:
I agree, but even with that you still need to cut out the "nothing" vote. Eventually, you'll still end up with a lot of people being disappointed no matter how slowly you specify. Honestly, I wouldn't even have bothered narrowing it down. Voting on SV rarely ends up being a majority anyway given that pluralities tend to take all under most voting schemes, so I don't honestly get why we even bothered with the narrowed vote.
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Well, the narrowed vote did have the benefit of switching to a single vote option, allowing people to chose their favourite instead of merely acceptable.
 
We could put it to an actual vote, were we to bring it up IC.

Before we go on the cleansing trip, ask everyone: What do they think about us getting a fake ID, since we know a girl who should be able to hack us one?

Maybe everyone will say the idea is dumb, or that we totally should go for it, and pick up a last name.
 
I'm kinda tempted to declare Vee the winner anyway. :/

It's in first place with 29 approval votes on the first survey, and has more than twice the number of preference votes to the next option on the second survey.

I'd like to actually settle this. Thoughts on rules for a survey that would actually lead to a conclusion? Clearly only including the top three was too harsh a cutoff.
 
Can that poll site do ranked voting? That might get better results, I think.
 
Redshirt Army said:
Very much the opposite - unless you have a new suggestion in mind that'll sway an astounding number of voters, all it'll do is split people among even more choices.
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More choices shouldn't split anything in approval voting, at least in theory..........................
Redshirt Army said:
I'm kinda tempted to declare Vee the winner anyway. :/

It's in first place with 29 approval votes on the first survey, and has more than twice the number of preference votes to the next option on the second survey.

I'd like to actually settle this. Thoughts on rules for a survey that would actually lead to a conclusion? Clearly only including the top three was too harsh a cutoff.
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Ranked voting would be more complicated to set up, but would probably work best.
 
For reference, the poll I'm planning on making would have as its options:
• Vee
• Velocity
• Victoria
• Just
• Dedolere
• A friend's name (Tomoe, Akemi, etc.)
• von [SUBJECT_ORIGIN]

And would be a ranked vote.

All other options, including the catch-all "not on this list" option, were approved by less people then no surname at all.

Godwinson said:
Approval voting doesn't split votes. If votes are being split, then either you don't understand approval voting or the voters don't understand approval voting. :p
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I was refering to a FPTP runoff. If you want an approval vote with a ton of options, we already did that. Vee won, but people weren't satisfied with the relatively small margin of the victory.
 
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Godwinson said:
Approval voting doesn't split votes. If votes are being split, then either you don't understand approval voting or the voters don't understand approval voting. :p
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While this is true, if it is liked a similar amount to the other top choices, it will simply result in a larger number of names with almost the same number of votes with little to distinguish them.
 
If it was a normal SV vote, we would reach a conclusion, I think.

Though I really rather ask Homu & Mado to name Brina and see what happens. They can take it however they want :p Names are more commongly given than taken, so I'd like that.
 
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