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Sorry for interjecting this into busy newstimes, but our last poll asking for thoughts on Bethesda's Fallout 3 concept art and teaser clearly no longer has any relevance, so it was time to cut it. The results were a big hit for "looks ok" (25.35%) and "looks awesome" (23.55%). People also thought the game'd suck (3.39%), that it looks ok but they need to work on it (7.18%), that concepts looked good but not Fallouty enough (4.36%), that the trailer looked good but the power armor was bad (4.35%). Others thought they didn't show us anything (15.94%) or it was just hype (4.74%). Ron Perlman! (10.50%) and "what concept art and teaser" (0.63%) mopped up.

Sadly, we also have to report that there were some distinct oddities with this poll. Not only did "looks ok" and "looks awesome" grow at an odd exponential rate after the poll was already up for a while, the poll had a bizarre rate of 283 votes per day (even 381 votes per day until we turned the IP checking clock up). This opposed to the range of 19-88 votes per day we usually get.

We've always had a pretty insecure poll system in which you could easily vote multiple times, but it looks like this is the first time some people felt the need to take abuse of that. While we review the poll system, we won't be running any polls with serious questions anymore for a while. And our streak of joke-polls begins with "Groin shots, will you miss them?"
 
It's not the first time, just kill the polls, they were never ever reliable, the filters reset for no reason. Kill the polls or get a better poll system.
 
Conspiracy theories for teh win!

Note that less a half (48,9%) thought clearly positive of the teaser, a mjority (59,4%) only if we count "Ron Perlman!" as a positive. That's not one-way at all. Even if someone actually had taken turns to multiple vote.

This poll clearly shows that while the general reception is slightly positive, much can be done to improve it.

Also, I'm curious how will we do at the next milestone, when actual info about the game had been released - I myself was very positive at the time of the teaser.
 
We might. I'm not a big fan of it anyway.

What do you guys think? Do front-page polls serve any purpose?

I don't think any of our staff really feels like upgrading our poll system. all polls can be cheated, anyway

It's not a conspiracy theory, Silencer, that high a number of votes just can't happen naturally, not when we weren't having 5 times as many hits as we were for the poll before it.
 
Yeah, but that's the beauty of voting systems - it is hardly a function of HOW MANY people care about an answer, it is about HOW MUCH they do and to what lengths will they go to make it the top chosen one ;)

Statistics 101: Polls are inherently flawed.

Logic 101: Statistics are inherently flawed.

Still, we could go on pondering this, but instead, one can just juxtapose those results with the forum posts, or go on believing in a silent <s>majority</s> minority.

Front page polls aren't a serious polling (pun certainly intended) tool. They're just there for fun ;)
 
Brother None said:
What do you guys think? Do front-page polls serve any purpose?
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Silencer said:
Front page polls aren't a serious polling (pun certainly intended) tool. They're just there for fun :wink:
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I like the polls, but agree with Silencer that they're just good for a bit of fun. Maybe in future it'd be good to keep it less serious. At least then you have less chance of trolls infecting the polls.

Mick
 
I don't know about "seriouseneness" but I think they should be more direct and simple.

Do you like FINO3?

1.Yes

2.No

3.Waiting to get my nose rubbed in
 
Brother None said:
Mick1965 said:
Maybe in future it'd be good to keep it less serious.
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Sounds like the wisest course of action
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Seconded. They're simply there to add some flavour to the frontpage. It's not like you guys make graphs and diagrams out of the data and mail them to the FBI, eh? Or do you? :eyebrow:

There are better ways to vent our opinions. Keep the polls on the light side.
 
alec said:
Brother None said:
Mick1965 said:
Maybe in future it'd be good to keep it less serious.
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Sounds like the wisest course of action
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Seconded. They're simply there to add some flavour to the frontpage. It's not like you guys make graphs and diagrams out of the data and mail them to the FBI, eh? Or do you? :eyebrow:

There are better ways to vent our opinions. Keep the polls on the light side.
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Shit, you weren't supposed to see that... :look:
 
The thing doesn't work properly, no light sided polls are going to fix that. just kill it, please.
 
- hmm ---

Are you sure you didn't get the extra votes because of the more focus that has been on NMA right now. I meam, irrc, all major previews (I think?) has mentioned NMA, so maybe more people just got curius and decided to vote.

And yes, all polls can be 'cheated'.

I think it would be a shame to not do serious polls anymore, since this helps people to see where this community stands in regards to say Fallout 3 general or some of the details revealed to be in Fallout 3.

I don't how, if you can do it tech wise or how much work it is?, but you should really think about only letting the one IP adress= one vote be the next thing. I know this doesn't hinder people from voting from say work or something like that, but I will catch the people voting from the same IP adress more than once...
 
I propose a poll on whether or not we should continue to have polls.

But either way, it doesn't matter to me as I never go to the main page anyway. The forums is where its at DAWGZ.
 
Briosafreak said:
Kill the polls or get a better poll system.
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Brother None said:
I don't think any of our staff really feels like upgrading our poll system. all polls can be cheated, anyway
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So it's nigh impossible to get a serious, relevant and reliable poll up and running? I'll miss groin shots and anything else cool omitted from a game I play. This reoccurring idiodicy of incomplete games has me less inclined to spend money on recent releases. A pity...
 
I don't know about everyone else - but I've always voted fairly on the polls.

1x and that was all for me, I didn't see the need to change my answer or re-vote. Plus, I think Kharn already fixed it. I tried to vote a second time yesterday and I got a 'page not found' error. :)
 
Brother None said:
And our streak of joke-polls begins with "Groin shots, will you miss them?"
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depends on who being shot really, as long as its some other dude I dont mind :clap:
 
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