ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31

Most of the 2019 shows I have seen are frankly unworthy of nominations or votes but they make for solid ambient accompaniment to making dinner and paying bills and what have you.

most of us eat dinner and pay bills too!

reminded I need to finish this season of Mindhunter, I really dig that show so I'm not sure why I haven't yet seen it through to the end.

I might have thought of doing that, yes.

Lol. Just seen my bookmarks

Helped me clear a few bookmarks I no longer need, tbh.

is it cool if i vote in this even if i hate television

btw feels like fleabag's and russian doll's game to win

we all hate everything brad; that's the point of the board

lol

i kinda feel like i haven't seen enough to do this. there are many shows on the list that i feel like i would love that i just haven't gotten around to (the oa bc i love hot incoherent messes, steven universe which i've seen some but not all of, joe pera talks to you, letterkenny, tuca and bertie). i'd be a prominent voter for the most recent season of are you the one though, greatest season of reality tv i've ever seen

PEN15! PEN15!

i also need to see that show

i arranged the 15 shows i voted for into a tier of 1-10 and 11-15 to align with the point tiers above, but then i was thinking that if i could choose, i would give 10 points to my top 5, which were the shows i really enjoyed above and beyond everything else, and 5 points to my bottom 10, which were shows i enjoyed but didn't reach that peak. but i understand that letting everyone assign their own points is too complicated. just being honest about what i loved vs. what i liked

also i know it came out like three years ago but i think i should still be able to vote for twin peaks the return

I sent a ballot. I would have given Russian Doll the bulk of my points had that been an option.

It's a shame Emmerdale wasn't nominated!

Modest proposal: same points as before except on all ballots,

#4 = 15 points
#3 = 20 points
#2 = 25 points
#1 = 30 points

I want my very favourite stuff to get an outsize share of the points and stand a better chance, and I think others would agree. As I say, your call, and thanks for running this

I'll likely adjust different point scoring for future polls but let's chalk scoring issues up this go round to first time polling.
I've already got a tabulation system in place and people voted based on it so i don't want the hassle/work/madness of revising it midstream.

Also: we are getting several ballots with only three or four picks which means there's some strategic options if you really want to stress the stuff you love!

Solution: close the voting tonight as planned. Then announce that every voter has 3 or 4 days to affirm their ordered top 4 by email. Then add 5 points to 4s, 10 to 3s, 15 to 2s and 20 to 1s. I don't want my #1 and #10 to get the same number of points, and my only 'strategic option' is to only vote for 4 things! Which all get the same points as each other anyway! Sorry to be difficult but this would be way better (and less of a dull Netflix procession) with more tiering.

Unless you're making a mordant comment on the viewing-figures-based likelihood of shows getting renewed lol

Problem with changing the voting is that not everyone who sent in a ballot is going to know things have changed.

imago: sorry, it's not changing this year.
It'll be okay! There will still be lots to explore and argue about even if the final tabulation doesn't meticulously reflect everyone's very specific enthusiasms to the proper decimal point.
Plus: Moka images! How can you not be happy with Moka images!

Also forks if you aren't too busy tabulating results I could really use your help painting my house. And by help I mean basically that I need you to just be a dear and do it for me. I'll be out of town for the weekend, hope you can finish by the time I'm back!

obviously I feel like an asshole being like this but...a straight 25 points -> 1 point system would have been the way to go. send me the results and I'll tabulate them all lol

alternatively let's just do this and think about a revision next time, sorry to have been a pest

I like the limitations of the current voting.

Nah, stick with Ulysses' plan. Changing the voting after 30+ people have voted is dumb.

Just a thought, but the time to issue concerns about the methods of tabulation would've maybe been any day prior to the voting deadline. Again, just a thought.

My ballot is in! I just put in four things I really, really liked.

It’s ok LJ u just being u!

And for the record: I realize that is not the best means of scoring for future. But we’re here now!

I am fine with different scoring for different polls, let a hundred flowers bloom! In a way, this scoring system forced me to put down four things I really liked and skip six which I like a lot but which lots of other people also like and maybe this helps reward individual enthusiasms, I dunno.

yeah, i don't think every poll needs P&J bloody tears level of point debating.

Well under the current scoring regime I found myself kicking some shows off my ballot so that I only had 10 total entries.

i also only did 4.

I didn't actually order my already submitted ballot that carefully after the initial top four, tbh, and considered only voting for four also.

No reason to kick things off just to have ten! Any picks between eleven and twenty get five points and doesn’t penalize your first ten at all!

Only benefit to fewer picks is the under five ballot, where every vote gets fifteen.
Intent there is to encourage casuals to vote and to have a rooting interest. It appears to be working, we have ballots of all types now!

Oh damn I misread the rules then! Can I submit a revised ballot?

Just for you yes

I'm ~*special*~

Fixed!

i sent in my ballot

I don't have the sensibility to work out whether 'strategically voting' for only a top 10 will benefit my favoured shows or not. Nor do I really have the restraint to only vote for a top 10.

Voted!

Likewise!

Having just finished Giri/Haji, I regret not voting for it.

I think that’s 2020?

Also: HEY EVERYONE GET A BALLOT IN! Be part of the (televised) action!

I think that’s 2020?

FPing furiously

Oh I thought you meant “girl” not giri, not sure what you are talking about

I'ma vote, if only to distract myself from today's politics.