Freeciv-Web voting system
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2018 4:46 am
In the post-Andreas future, we need an effective voting system. Discord is too limited practically and communally. Corbeau and Darkdusk both have two productive decisions which we should offer up to the community.
Corbeau has established this Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1613410445402367/
Darkdusk suggests Strawpoll.me: https://www.strawpoll.me/
Strawpoll can be embedded here in the Forum or inside Discord. Probably with the correct plugin, a Facebook status could also be embedded in the Forum (and anyway it's easy to post a link). Here are the pros and cons as I see them, people may of course add, dispute or correct me in the replies.
PROS: Facebook limits voting according to profile, Strawpoll according to IP address.
CONS: Facebook, requires potentially revealing a player's true identity. Strawpoll does not close polls which makes it vulnerable to ex post facto vote-tampering, so screen-capping results by a certain deadline will be necessary. Facebook is less vulnerable to vote-tampering.
This is ironic to say, but the community should vote about which platform we should use. I have *cough created this Strawpoll survey (thereby revealing my preference/bias in the subject): https://www.strawpoll.me/15217053
Everyone, please cast your vote by next Tuesday 17:00 UTC!
Corbeau has established this Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1613410445402367/
Darkdusk suggests Strawpoll.me: https://www.strawpoll.me/
Strawpoll can be embedded here in the Forum or inside Discord. Probably with the correct plugin, a Facebook status could also be embedded in the Forum (and anyway it's easy to post a link). Here are the pros and cons as I see them, people may of course add, dispute or correct me in the replies.
PROS: Facebook limits voting according to profile, Strawpoll according to IP address.
CONS: Facebook, requires potentially revealing a player's true identity. Strawpoll does not close polls which makes it vulnerable to ex post facto vote-tampering, so screen-capping results by a certain deadline will be necessary. Facebook is less vulnerable to vote-tampering.
This is ironic to say, but the community should vote about which platform we should use. I have *cough created this Strawpoll survey (thereby revealing my preference/bias in the subject): https://www.strawpoll.me/15217053
Everyone, please cast your vote by next Tuesday 17:00 UTC!