i would like to run an alternative 90's poll, with a radical and experimental new voting system
― joagga lousome (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 February 2010 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
A voting system in which only Mansun are eligible?
― emil.y, Friday, 26 February 2010 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Hahaha, no, a system where:
-Everyone has 200 points to spend how they will-One album must get more points than any other (no tied winners)-I'm counting, so don't cheat
― joagga lousome (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 February 2010 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I think that system would work way better than current ILX polling systems, and would increase the chances of real niche surprises emerging at the behest of people who love them enough
― joagga lousome (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 February 2010 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
go back to Russia
― mdskltr (blueski), Friday, 26 February 2010 16:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I dunno, though, 200 points is a lot. Not sure about the 90s, but I could see myself in a different poll just chucking all 200 at the Art Bears in a fit of petulance that nobody else likes them. Or worse, someone could purposefully pick the worst album they could think of and give them 200 points. If everyone else is picking 20+ records, it would be all too easy to skew for kicks.
― emil.y, Friday, 26 February 2010 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
But that's the beauty of it! It's their prerogative! I'd expect the bar for results to be well over 200 points so it'd take an obvious and easily-quenchable block-voting campaign to get some novelty record into the list. The actual number of points doesn't matter if everyone has the same, but 200 sounded nice to me. My own ballot would heave quite a lot of points Cardiacs-wards, but I'd still leave 100 or so over for other stuff. For something like Art Bears you'd do worse than give 'em 100 points and hope someone else gets the right idea. If they don't, then it doesn't deserve to be in the poll, does it? Yeah, I know it does, but it doesn't. I feel your pain.
― joagga lousome (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 February 2010 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyway, an alt-90's poll seems a good way to trial the method, at least. As long as everyone doesn't start voting for Ocean Colour Scene.
― joagga lousome (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 February 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Just for fun...how about everyone gets 200 MILLION points?
― ^^potentially not true at all, sry^^ (Z S), Friday, 26 February 2010 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
but you can only allocate a maximum of 50 points to any single album.
Well, I'd be up for an alternative '90s poll, and it's not like it matters if we get strange results, so... go for it.
― emil.y, Friday, 26 February 2010 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahaha but some jerk's gonna make my life hell, all voting for seven thousand different albums and giving Superunknown like 13,508,443 points and making it all add up to 200,000,003 and then being all 'NAHHHH GOTCHA' when I don't bother to add it up plus I do have like a degree to finish
lol zackly, Z S
― joagga lousome (acoleuthic), Friday, 26 February 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Fucking excellent #1 album... agree wholeheartedly.
― kelpolaris, Friday, 9 April 2010 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
hey NRQ you can stop doing that now
― forgive me fada (acoleuthic), Friday, 9 April 2010 23:49 (fourteen years ago) link
was there ever a songs poll?
― how's life, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 14:37 (ten years ago) link
Wait, this isn't even the 90s poll I thought it was. wtf.
― how's life, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
what's the statute of limitations on these decade polls? i'm curious what it'd look like if we ran this today with a decade+ more distance from the source. do we really still like Pulp this much as a community?
― ciderpress, Sunday, 25 September 2016 02:30 (seven years ago) link
imago did an alternative 90s poll iirc after this
― Cosmic Slop, Sunday, 25 September 2016 02:39 (seven years ago) link