Matt, I'm really glad everyone welcomed my idea so warmly. Especially Aaron, who perfected what I had come up with so brilliantly. Thanks be to him! I'm just happy to have contributed to one of my most favorite places on the Internet.Originally Posted by Matt
You are very welcome, pablo. We are always looking for great new ideas to make the site a better place, and I knew this was a golden idea as soon as I saw this thread. So thank you.
The first bracket is up now. The brackets will be staggered by three day intervals, and will last a week each. So, although the current bracket's voting won't end until next Monday, the second bracket will be going up on Thursday. And so on from there.
I am going to move this thread into the main area of the new forum a little bit later--just ran out of lunchtime--but I'll redirect so that folks can find it.
Please feel free to comment on your choices in the individual threads, too.
Heng Dai
I have also created a Marquee for the site to advertise this.
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best book poll
70's- Salem's lot/The Stand
EARLY 80's- The Gunslinger/Christine
Late 80's- The Talisman/Drawing of the three
Early 90's- Needful things/nightmares and dreamscapes
late 90's- desperation/hearts in atlantis
early 2000's- everything's eventual/Dark tower
Late 2000's- cell/blaze
atrum_unum, go into the subforum here and start voting on the first bracket! What you post here won't be counted.
By the way, Aaron, I'm just wondering, looking at how the first polls are doing so far: what do we do when a book is tied in voting. Say, for the sake of argument, 50% voted "5" and 50% voted "4" - what then? Do we have a tie-breaker of some kind?
Pablo/Aaron - do you want people to vote if they haven't read the book?
For example - in the first bracket, I've only read 1 of the 5 books being scored. Would you prefer me to vote "haven't read" to keep the results constant or just not vote at all?
Do vote if you've read the book, of course. You can vote "Never Read" if you like, but I don't think it's required. Unless Aaron can tell you otherwise, he's the boss.
I think the decision was the honor rule to not vote on books you have not read.
I'm not sure if that means the more popular books will skew the results as more people have probably read them.
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Well we're going by the percentages, I think, not total votes. So it's okay if some books get less votes. The more people vote, the more correct the results. But everyone, get out and vote!
(I'm Pablo and I approve this message.)
You can either vote for "Never Read" or decline to vote if you havent read the book. I added the option for "Never Read" so that we can get an idea of the least read books by King. I thought it would be a good chance for us to get some statistics on it.
All of the scores will be averaged down to however many decimal points it takes. In the case of ties we will first look at the number of "5"s given to the books. If one of the book received more fives then it will take the ranking above the other, and so on down the line. If every single vote is identical then we will have a face-off poll. The face-off would only decide which of the two books takes the higher ranking, and would not affect the voting as a whole.
So far I've only voted on one book I haven't read (and I voted "Never Read")--Rage.I think the decision was the honor rule to not vote on books you have not read.
I'm not sure if that means the more popular books will skew the results as more people have probably read them.
I just ran some preliminary numbers and the scores are all looking nice and varied. I think this scoring system is going to end up working out great.
Can't wait for next Monday to see how the first bracket finishes up!
I'm surprised on how many comments there are for Rage. Almost twice as many as any of the other five books! I honestly thought The Shining would have more!
John
Aaron, I know you said the 2nd bracket will go up Thursday. Could you add the schedule for the rest of the first round to the special "Bracket schedule" I created, please? If you've got that planned out, that is. Just so everyone could see when they should come back to the forum to vote for the new books.
Just noticed that 34 people have voted for Night Shift but there are polls with 36 or 39 votes, as of right now. I'd urge anyone that has not read the book, then just vote that way, don't skip it. It's still giving us valuable data.
Man, then I gotta get cracking!
this is a brilliant fucking idea and my shell is off to pablo for coming up with it and to aaron (and whoever else) for working on it!
my votes are
Carrie
The Stand
Gunslinger
Christine
It
Needful Things
You still need to go in the sub-forum and vote them. Votes in this thread will not count, as I understand it.
This was a great idea folks, and I think the voting system is going to prove to be very good.
Yeah, I can post a dated schedule. I'll get it up sometime today.
Also, I am going to be starting a new subforum in this area today for miscellaneous categories that we are going to include in this as well. Things like--book with the best ending, worst ending, best protagonist (hero), best antagonist (villain), best supporting character, and so on.
The threads that I start today, however, will not be voting threads. Instead they will be threads to nominate contenders for each category. Once the nominees have been decided then the voting for those areas will begin.
Hello all
Where do I go to vote?? I am not super literate on a PC so any help will be appreciated
Dufa40
If you click on the "go" button on the bottom right it will take you to the forum root.
There you will see a Sub Forum for voting, go in there and you are good to to.
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