TTC After a Loss

TTCAL Awards Voting! I need some opinions & feedback.

I've gotten a few PMs recently addressing how the voting will work. 

In a nutshell, the voting will be via a large survey over at Survey Monkey that I will create after the nominations are over. I've created an account already so I can familiarize myself with how that works.

The PMs I've gotten express some concern over sharing the link to said survey on TTCAL. There is some worry and rightly so that lurkers (and by lurkers I mean unregistered members) will open the survey and vote which may ultimately skew the results. To avoid this, I've thought of perhaps limiting the number of times 1 IP address can vote but really that doesn't take care of the fact that people from outside the community can simply head over to the survey monkey site and vote regardless.

Does this concern you? Are you worried about it?

The only solution I can come up with is inviting people via email. I believe there is a function on survey monkey that allows me to send email invites to those who are interested in voting. Would this be something you are interested in? Would you feel comfortable sharing your email address with me for the purpose of the awards?

Talk to me people.

Re: TTCAL Awards Voting! I need some opinions & feedback.

  • The thought of others hacking our awards never crossed my mind honestly until now. I don't have an issue sharing my email address with you. I'll PM you now. :x

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  • The thought of others hacking our awards never crossed my mind honestly until now. I don't have an issue sharing my email address with you. I'll PM you now. :x

    Same here!

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  • I have no problem sharing my email with you if others (and yourself) feel that is a better way to protect the integrity of this contest. Such a shame people have no better things to do than to bombard a private awards contest.

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  • Thanks for sending me your email addresses ladies! Let's hold off for a bit though, let's see what the rest of the board thinks firs okay?

    I would hate to chase people away who would otherwise vote but feel uncomfortable sharing their email.
  • mlal78 said:
    I think that it would be so much work to try and keep it to ttcal member votes, so it should stay open.  I would hope that lurkers wouldn't bombard it and leave it for us ttcal ladies and recent grads, but that may be wishful thinking
    :P
    Maybe we can PM the link to each other???? 
  • @PinkCamino...I was wondering if there could be a PM chain of sorts...like maybe everyone posts in a thread and whoever is next in line passes it on, but there are so many of us, plus multiple awards, something is sure to be missed...right???

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  • Yup pretty much what @DCWJes said ! It's always come out ok..
    @DCWJes and @wickedsugar are wise. This isn't the first year we have done the awards and we have always posted the link with no problems. I say post the link and leave it be.
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    edited September 2013
    I never even considered unregistered lurkers. Having a private PM may disuade board member lurkers from joining in who may have otherwise voted, however.

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  • mlal78 said:
    I think that it would be so much work to try and keep it to ttcal member votes, so it should stay open.  I would hope that lurkers wouldn't bombard it and leave it for us ttcal ladies and recent grads, but that may be wishful thinking
    :P
    These are my thoughts as well
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  • Ditto the other oldies who said we should just post the link. It's worked out fine before, and I'm sure it will this time. I think emailing would definitely make the threshold for voting higher, and we wouldn't have nearly as many votes.

    I do like your idea of limiting it to one vote per IP address, though.

    Thanks again for doing this, you are a rock star.

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  • I know lots of the graduates will vote. But I'm ok with that if they've been active on the board within the past year. I think that's great and they still know us. They've got totally valid opinions on the matter. I don't think it's appropriate for people who don't belong to this board, or who haven't recently to vote.

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  • We could imbed the survey into the blog... 
    That might keep the non-members out, since they never take the time to read the blog anyway, it may even encourage a few of our grads to vote too, which I'd be open to :)
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  • I didn't even think about lurkers trying to mess with the results. And even if they do, all of the options were nominated and seconded by at least one other person. I think that those who have been nominated have been deserving it.  One person may be the "best" in some eyes, but everyone is really great and this is just for fun.

    I say just post the link to the survey because it's worked in the past. It seems like a lot of work, could get really complicated, and dissuade a lot of less active members from voting.
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  • This is getting a big eye roll from me.
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  • mlal78 said:
    uneek1323 said:
    This is getting a big eye roll from me.
    Why?  She posted the question looking for information after getting pm'd about it.  She has not run the awards before and was looking for feedback on how it has been done.

    People chimed in and gave her info from previous years and how it has been done.
    I get why Pink posted the question. That's fine. TTCAL awards aren't that complicated. It just seems like we're having post after post of discussions about the awards (not including nominations posts, of course).
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