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Sickpup

Dec 12 2007, 08:54 AM

I'm seeing a lot of In Rainbows and Neon Bibles below the top 20 mark. It's making me nervous.

Mitchell

Dec 12 2007, 08:59 AM

We went with the weighted list.

Sickpup

Dec 12 2007, 09:02 AM

QUOTE(MitchellStirling @ Dec 12 2007, 09:59 AM) [snapback]527569[/snapback]

We went with the weighted list.

so roughly how many #20s = to one #1?

Mitchell

Dec 12 2007, 09:06 AM

5.

#1 = 2*#4 = 4*#15 = 5*#20 = 10*#30 = 20*#40 for albums.

BobtheSquid

Dec 12 2007, 09:10 AM

QUOTE(Sickpup @ Dec 12 2007, 06:54 AM) [snapback]527562[/snapback]

I'm seeing a lot of In Rainbows and Neon Bibles below the top 20 mark. It's making me nervous.

You're certainly not helping by only voting for five albums.

Paul

Dec 12 2007, 10:09 PM

QUOTE(Sickpup @ Dec 12 2007, 07:54 AM) [snapback]527562[/snapback]

I'm seeing a lot of In Rainbows and Neon Bibles below the top 20 mark. It's making me nervous.

There are a fair amount of them above the top 20 mark, as well.

yancy

Dec 12 2007, 10:54 PM

QUOTE(BobtheSquid @ Dec 12 2007, 08:10 AM) [snapback]527581[/snapback]

You're certainly not helping by only voting for five albums.

Yeah, he's really slacking on his support of mediocrity.

pigfuck

Dec 12 2007, 10:59 PM

Anyone see how the Onion A.V. Club does their point allocation? Everyone can vote for up to 15 albums and has 100 points total to allocate, but no album can get above 15 points. Personally, I'm pretty happy with this weighted tabulation Mitchell has put together, but I think it'd be an interesting idea to allow the point allocation on the SOMB to vary by person, with some type of "standard" in case some folks don't care to fuss with their points.

Again, though, I'm perfectly happy with the current system, just sayin' s'all...

yancy

Dec 12 2007, 11:05 PM

QUOTE(Michael K. @ Dec 12 2007, 09:59 PM) [snapback]528633[/snapback]

Everyone can vote for up to 15 albums and has 100 points total to allocate, but no album can get above 15 points.

To be frank, the average sombie's ability to follow rules and do math is so poor as to drive the polltaker insane.

Cachapeechak

Dec 12 2007, 11:07 PM

QUOTE(yancy @ Dec 12 2007, 11:05 PM) [snapback]528639[/snapback]

QUOTE(Michael K. @ Dec 12 2007, 09:59 PM) [snapback]528633[/snapback]

Everyone can vote for up to 15 albums and has 100 points total to allocate, but no album can get above 15 points.

To be frank, the average sombie's ability to follow rules and do math is so poor as to drive the polltaker insane.

OFM

Hero

Dec 13 2007, 12:32 AM

QUOTE(yancy @ Dec 13 2007, 12:05 AM) [snapback]528639[/snapback]

QUOTE(Michael K. @ Dec 12 2007, 09:59 PM) [snapback]528633[/snapback]

Everyone can vote for up to 15 albums and has 100 points total to allocate, but no album can get above 15 points.

To be frank, the average sombie's ability to follow rules and do math is so poor as to drive the polltaker insane.

so the SOMB is full of people who suck at math & can't swim
cool.

elc

Dec 13 2007, 12:35 AM

QUOTE(Michael K. @ Dec 12 2007, 09:59 PM) [snapback]528633[/snapback]

we successfully did an alltime poll like this about 6 years ago. I tabulated the results and they were pretty similar to a previous poll without such a system.

math is my strong suit and I'm a solid swimmer.

Mitchell

Dec 13 2007, 03:35 AM

We mentioned doing that (Pazz and Jop) method and the board's overwhelming response was no.

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