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Polls for mindfolk/tulpas


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As we know mindfolk's opinion on some polls might be useful if not even necessary in some cases, so I was wondering if we could get some special poll that would allow mindfolk to vote or at least encourage them to create their own account.

 

If we decide to make a special poll for them, then I would suggest that each person can vote up to X times (not sure how many), so each of their mindfolk can vote. You could give each vote a "name", so that it's possible to know which one of your mindfolk voted what. The amount of votes submitted by each person could be visible by all members of the staff and by everyone in public polls, so that it's possible to check if someone isn't giving away votes without having mindfolk that could be potentially vote in it. This can be abused to vote multiple times without your mindfolk's consent, so I would like to hear some suggestions on improving it.

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Then we have to rely on trust and the honor system. And banning multiple accounts on the same IP, which I suggested when Freddy was fucking shit up. One second bro.

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Instead of that, you can just make results visible. If this would be used for matters concerning tulpas, then it would be better to get a consensus from each member (and then see who exactly voted for what, and discriminate yourself). This kind of system would be way too open to abuse, or inefficient if checks were implemented.

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It's always going to be based on trust, because you don't know if the person has those mindfolk no matter whether or not we allowed people to vote for them using their main shared account or if they voted for them with additional accounts that were created for them.

 

Instead of that, you can just make results visible. If this would be used for matters concerning tulpas, then it would be better to get a consensus from each member (and then see who exactly voted for what, and discriminate yourself). This kind of system would be way too open to abuse, or inefficient if checks were implemented.

What if the people of one system can't reach a consensus? Should some opinion be chosen at random and others be ignored?

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I don't really see why this would be overly useful in the first place. I don't think that the current system of polling really suppresses accurate results, because the opinion of a legal individual is usually more useful than the individual tulpa's opinion. Individual tulpas' opinions can be easily stated in a post when necessary.

If a study were to be conducted necessitating the votes of multiple tulpas per person, an external system - such as Google Docs - could be utilised for greater control over voting and results. For the average forum poll, I would view this as unnecessary.

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I don't really see why this would be overly useful in the first place. I don't think that the current system of polling really suppresses accurate results, because the opinion of a legal individual is usually more useful than the individual tulpa's opinion. Individual tulpas' opinions can be easily stated in a post when necessary.

If a study were to be conducted necessitating the votes of multiple tulpas per person, an external system - such as Google Docs - could be utilised for greater control over voting and results. For the average forum poll, I would view this as unnecessary.

Sometimes you need to know mindfolk's opinion (be it because it directly affects them or for some other reason) and having to write those opinions in a post rather than being able to vote them into the poll defeats the point of a poll, because then you would have to go through the posts as well to determine who would vote what option. It might not be that important in most cases, but at the same time having the poll system in a way that makes the poll results inaccurate in many cases is not a good practise.

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If such a necessity were to arise, then the importance would - as I said - justify the use of an external data recording system such as Google Docs. Implementing a new poll system would be too much trouble for those few ocassions, on the other hand.

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