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So. Direct polling has the plus of most of the work being done, and instant knowledge of the tallies as they come in.
Disadvantage, less wonderful banter in the comment section.
I love comments. I love avoiding needless work. See the quandary there? Thoughts?
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I feel that reading a new chapter every day is difficult to keep up in general, and the choices don't seem to have that much of an impact to the story it self and makes it a bit pointless after a while. As much as I like reading it I don't always have much to say about it.
go with the polling for the story put a link in your comments and this will also cut the votes to just one.
and the readers can still make normal comments.
I thing the site is straw poll.
yep it is straw poll it is fairly easy to use.
strawpoll
4318445 You'd rather it slow down?
4318450 I think I prefer longer chapters and waiting a little to get it is fine to me.
An easy way to poll is using thumbs-ups.
If you want a limited-answer poll, make a set of comments to your story, each with the option to vote for. The one with the most thumbs-up wins (stops multiple votes, etc).
Alternate is to allow readers to put forward the ideas, and make sure everypony knows that thumbs-up voting is in effect for any and all suggestions.
Maybe need to state, Please go to poll site & vote for one option specifically for next chapter first, that will be the choice recorded to go towards the next chapter. then please come back to comments and suggest other ideas or options you may like to see in future chapters.
Anything to help streamline this is a good thing. )
( This is my comment and suggestion today here.
4318469 Interesting idea, that.
4318462 Terribly unlikely, I'm afraid. 2k chapters is what I tend to do on every story I have on the site, except where it's smaller.
On the other hoof, I do daily releases, where some do weekly, monthly, or longer.
I'd say that for what you're doing here, the old way with more banter serves to let this be more interactive and increases my sense of investment in the narrative and characters.
Those that wish to limit their participation to simply making choices are still able to do that in the old format as well.
Bottom line: If the extra work is serving a purpose then it's not needless.
4318493 Well argued. I'll likely go back to comments, though Damaged's suggestion is also interesting. It would let people downvote too if they wanted, and add their own ideas to be then voted up/down.
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I would say to not do this. You're going to get a lot less concensus if you allow an idea free-for-all with undirected voting.
4318512 The idea is that I would make a few comments that would be the 'official' choices, that could be given a thumbs up or down.
I can't use your poll site anyways (damn you, 3DS browser!), so I vote comments.
4318572 Hrm, your avatar is not immediately remembered. What did you last vote on?
Why not both? Yay for double voting (if you comment you deserve more votes).
4318493 This is my opinion as well. I think it offers the best choice. The amount of effort saved by a survey can't be that much greater than reading over comments, can it?
I mostly just prefer comments...
But I understand if you want the vote. Dat work saving.
Although there is a lot of interesting things added, we rarely inter argue about what's better or worse, though. You get a lot more nuance in what people feel about their choices. Whether they're adamant or just hinting at it.
Maybe you can encourage people to keep it clear? Like actually tell/remind them to please make them clear at the end of the message? And that comments that are just votes are fine, too. Could make it easier to count... but it's still more work, I suppose.
Maybe write a script to grab all the numbers from their entries?
If only I knew how to write a script to run arbitrarily on a page. I'm pretty sure it's possible but I don't know how to start.
In-comment voting seems more convenient overall, and could be scriptable like radical dishonestly said. Just have everyone put the numerals in somewhere in the comment (maybe head of the box?) so it's easier to tally.