[edgeofhearing]

With this many options in each of these 3 polls, I would like to humbly suggest we chop away at the list with another series of heats, taking the top 4 or so from each heat and moving on. It just feels like there are lots of votes floating around on options with no chance of advancing. If we recast the top options from these 3 polls in a mix with those that had multiple nominations initially, and then see how it shakes out, maybe we get a clearer winner.

Given the sheer number of entries, I'm inclined to move to round 2 as planned, but once we're there we'll still have 14 options to choose from. At that stage, I was planning on automatically having one runoff for the top three, but you make a good point. Perhaps we could go top 14 -> top 7 -> top 3, cutting down more gradually in order to get a clearer winner.

[Armus]

With this many options in each of these 3 polls, I would like to humbly suggest we chop away at the list with another series of heats, taking the top 4 or so from each heat and moving on. It just feels like there are lots of votes floating around on options with no chance of advancing. If we recast the top options from these 3 polls in a mix with those that had multiple nominations initially, and then see how it shakes out, maybe we get a clearer winner.

Given the sheer number of entries, I'm inclined to move to round 2 as planned, but once we're there we'll still have 14 options to choose from. At that stage, I was planning on automatically having one runoff for the top three, but you make a good point. Perhaps we could go top 14 -> top 7 -> top 3, cutting down more gradually in order to get a clearer winner.

I think if you take enough from each pass to equal a majority, that should be sufficient. So if the top 4/14 add up to 50%+ of the vote then the runoff is top 4. If you need 7 to get a majority, so be it.

This was my biggest problem with the last 1e WOTC: moving forward with the leading entry having, say, 30% of the votes didn't really represent the will of the collective.

Given the diversity of nominations, it strikes me as a worthwhile exercise to work our way to a majority choice. I think it will do more to keep people engaged through the process as well.

[edgeofhearing]

Borg and move on to round 2.