Hmmm... that's a good question. Maybe once the votes are in, you
could run the numbers both ways and see how much of a difference it
actually makes. Look for obvious groups in the numbers, if the
voting for one truck does get diluted like you're thinking, it should
be fairly easy to spot.
--- Jon <jon@dakota-truck.net> wrote:
>
> So I'm sitting here scanning in pics for the DML calendar
> voting,
> and a question occurred to me...
>
> First, a little background...
>
> The way its set up now, the pics are placed on a page, and people
> vote
> for their favorite pics. The 12 most popular pics make it into the
> calendar.
> There is already a stipulation that the same truck can't make it
> into the
> calendar twice (so for example, if someone submitted two pictures,
> and
> they ended up being #2 and #10 in the voting, the #2 pic would make
> it in
> the calendar, #10 would be dropped, and #13 would become #12.)
>
> ANYWAY, some people do send in multiple pics, but the way it is
> currently
> set up, lets say that half of the voters liked picture #1 and half
> liked
> picure #2. It is conceivable that neither of the pictures would
> make it
> into the calendar, even though 100% of the people voted for that
> truck.
> (because the votes were split between them, like Bush and Perot...)
>
> So, my question is, should I just do it on a "picture by picture"
> basis
> or on a "truck by truck" basis where I would add up all the votes
> for
> one truck, and the most popular picture of that truck gets all of
> the
> votes?
>
> The reason I ask is that several people (this year and last year)
> have sent in multiple pictures of their truck where the pictures
> are
> extremely similar. (i.e. same angle, same surroundings, just a
> small
> differences) It seems to me that it would be a shame to have the
> votes
> for a particular truck spread out over a few (essentially
> identical)
> pictures and thus bump a truck out of the calendar.
>
>
> Probing further,
>
> If you favor the "truck by truck" basis, do you think it should
> be
> "truck by truck" no matter what, or only "truck by truck" for
> similar
> pictures?
>
> Is this making sense to anyone? :-) Its a bit hard to
> explain...
>
>
> -Jon-
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