Conquer Club

• Don't let new recruits vote in forum polls

• What the title says. There are no specifics beyond that.

• This should almost completely remove the possibility of any cheating in polls; and while this is normally not something of consequence, sometimes it can be, especially in map-making competitions... *cough*

InkL0sed wrote:
This will improve the following aspects of the site:

• This should almost completely remove the possibility of any cheating in polls; and while this is normally not something of consequence, sometimes it can be, especially in map-making competitions... *cough*

owenshooter wrote:tell me everything I'm so desperate to know.

wcaclimbing wrote:

owenshooter wrote:tell me everything I'm so desperate to know.

No.

The specifics aren't important. The suggestion would help to stop cheating in general. If it helps make foundry contests more honest, then that is good. but it isn't the only reason.
It could help with polls everywhere, throughout CC.
If anyone has a reason to give themselves more votes in a poll, it would be good to make it so they can't use new recruits to do it.

owenshooter wrote:whatever, you need specifics. the foundry is the only place that polls seem to matter. i have never seen a poll in the GD or Suggestions that truly mattered of caused a rule change. the biggest poll i have ever seen had 77 or so votes about babysitting rules. if people are hijacking maps and contests, you should give specific examples, because the polls around the rest of the forums are obviously not as important as the ones in the foundry. so, either give specifics, or don't count on support from people that aren't involved in the foundry. that simple... the black jesus has spoken...-0

p.s.-once again the arrogance of the foundry has leaked into the forums. "you don't need to know the specifics, just agree with us."

The Neon Peon wrote:Enough info?

owenshooter wrote:there has to be a better solution than making it only
open to premiums to vote.

Timminz wrote:

owenshooter wrote:there has to be a better solution than making it only
open to premiums to vote.

New recruits. He wants to ban new recruits from voting in polls. Not freemiums.

gimil wrote:Problem with a suggestion like this one is that it requires a hack in the forums php software (From my limited knowledge or coding). This is generally a turn off for management since hacking php makes it that little bit harder to give the forum official php updates.

Somewhere down the line in the distant future I would rather see php4 (if that even is on the cards) get installed smoothly.

But there is every chance there is an easy fix for this and everything I just said was bullshit >.<

bbqpenguin wrote: i see no problem letting them vote but certainly not in places where important decisions are being made. the multis involved in the map competition mentioned completely ruined it, causing the removal of eligibility for the two best maps in the competition. we are now forced to chose from inferior (but still good) maps, and the entire community suffers from this.

owenshooter wrote:

bbqpenguin wrote: i see no problem letting them vote but certainly not in places where important decisions are being made. the multis involved in the map competition mentioned completely ruined it, causing the removal of eligibility for the two best maps in the competition. we are now forced to chose from inferior (but still good) maps, and the entire community suffers from this.

again, this is the attitude that keeps many people from going to the foundry in the first place. why not just close off the vote to only those you deem knowledgeable enough to cast informed votes? why not just create some foundry council where all the important decisions are made. because even when the community speaks out, you ignore them and declare things need to be changed (i.e.-map updates that many members still don't like and still don't feel were necessary).

i respect what goes on in the foundry, and i know how hard you all work and what you give to CC. however, i rarely venture there, because of the attitudes often encountered. and many people i speak to on a regular basis feel the same way. hard to feel as if you are a part of something, when often times, popular opinion is just ignored. some went to voice displeasure in the Brit Isles revamp when it first began, and simply were ignored as not being knowledgeable enough to make an informed opinion.

if you want to truly embrace the community and ask for real opinions, than do so. excluding people isn't going to help. if you take that step, than why not do as i suggested earlier? simply create a foundry council that decides all the important aspects of the current maps going through the process. the black jesus has spoken...-0

p.s.-and who is to say that the maps that won aren't better than the 2 that you liked? simply your opinion...

Joodoo wrote:I would agree if an exception is placed on the tower of babble...