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rtrooney - 07 January 2016 06:56 PM

TimovieMan - 07 January 2016 03:00 PM

Actually, that’s exactly what I thought you would do, and what I think Buldozer did: try to aim for the most popular games, so “Other” isn’t picked that often.

It’s impossible to correctly gauge the top 11 games, but some are obviously more popular than others (even if you don’t think they deserve to be).

There were 17 games and 11 slots. Each game had a 65% chance of being placed in the 11 top slots. Each game was assigned a number (1-17) and a random sequence generator told me where to place them. Numbers 12-17 got placed in the “Other” category. That was always the way I intended to do it. It was the most transparent and the least biased.

I could have also placed them alphabetically. That would also be random inasmuch at it depends on what the developers decided to title the games. Also something over which I have no control.

It appears that the vast majority of players don’t like my method. The solution to that is simple. Step up and volunteer to do it yourself.

I’ve only done one poll, and it is definitely not worth the effort/aggravation ratio. If there is another, it will be done by someone else. If there is nobody else…..I may do it again. But, if I do do it. And if people have a problem with that, I have a HUGE expletive I will vent in that direction.

Zobraks - Please! If you have the research to drag me down, do the poll yourself. I’m not perfect. Neither is the research. And neither are you
Karlok - You have obviously played more games than me. So if you want to jerk me around as to whether a game I selected qualifies to be in the poll…do the poll yourself!
And for all the rest who said thank you for continuing the poll, but also said here is where you screwed up, do the poll yourself.

Next poll is 1997. I was planning on doing it on Monday, 11 January.

You tell me what should happen.

Could you be anymore butthurt over a games poll?

Just let someone less emotionally attached and with more a clue than you do the remaining polls and all will be well

@Burge, that’s completely out of line.

@rtrooney. Thanks for doing this poll and sorry if my earlier comment on this thread caused you offense. I had misread your first post and thought you had ordered them by popularity for the poll so it seemed strange to me not to find Broken Sword. Ordering randomly does seem logical but it’s true that in the case of very popular games they should probably be in the poll otherwise we end up with too many people voting other. Not an easy thing to do if it’s a year with a lot of games. Regardless, we’re here to have fun and talk about games that we like and it’s a pity when people start being insulting or unfriendly over small things.

If you really want to stop, I don’t mind volunteering but I wouldn’t be able to post the next poll before thursday 14th (going on a trip this week).

One way to do it could be to drop “Other” as the 12th option and instead add: “None of the above - name your favorite in the comments” as the 12th option.

- Then the thread starter could simply count every “12th option games” from the comments and list them [EDIT: obviously including the number of votes for each of them] - not that many are participating so it shouldn’t take more than a few minutes.
- I know it’s different from “just” making a poll and some margin of error is to be expected, but as the movieman said, it’s just fun, not a science study
- There should probably still be a selection of games in the first post for inspiration, since most probably won’t bother looking up more games.

I don’t mind doing a couple of polls/threads, I just don’t have the time to do every year.

EDIT 2: In case I wasn’t clear (see Smulans post): I didn’t suggest changing the structure because of dissatisfaction - It was just to make things slightly more approachable from a user perspective. After all, the structure would be largely the same as what rtrooney did in this thread

Shivers

Go on with your polls, rtrooney. I find them amusing, let the dissatisfied do their own. I’ m sure they already have begun.

smulan - 09 January 2016 08:11 AM

Go on with your polls, rtrooney. I find them amusing, let the dissatisfied do their own. I’ m sure they already have begun.

I don’t know if you think I’m one of the dissatisfied people, but in case I wasn’t clear: I didn’t suggest changing the structure because of dissatisfaction - It was just to make things slightly more approachable from a user perspective. After all, the structure would be largely the same as what rtrooney did in this thread

rtrooney - 07 January 2016 11:08 AM

Two - The positioning of the games is totally random. There is no “reason” why
Broken Sword wasn’t in the top 11. It just wast. To position games according to how I think they should fall would make the list an opinion piece, not a poll.

I don’t follow your logic here.

If you aren’t including the most popular games from an era, are you thinking people will happily vote for some obscure title just because it’s in the list? Seems like you are trying to manipulate people into voting for titles they really don’t want to.

Iznogood - 10 January 2016 06:12 AM

Burge - 10 January 2016 06:01 AM

If you aren’t including the most popular games from an era, are you thinking people will happily vote for some obscure title just because it’s in the list? Seems like you are trying to manipulate people into voting for titles they really don’t want to.

People can still vote for the games that aren’t included in the actual poll, they just have to post their vote in the thread instead - and as you can see, many have done exactly that.

As a visual representation it sux, doe