Also don't trust pizaaplanet, he is full of shit and didn't vote at all and I think he is just trying to shit stir, he has obvious objections to the whole idea anyway. I had 1 vote for secret user. I am happy to quote every single pm I have if there are no objections at all to that.
Errr...
Yes, I did vote. Thanks very much. No, I do not have "obvious objections" to the idea - on the contrary, it's something I've supported from the beginning. You've just cleared my doubts that you are indeed fucking with this election.
I'm not sure what you were trying to accomplish with this, and speculating about it would be giving you more legitimacy that you deserve at this point, but what you
did accomplish is deprived yourself of any and all trust I may have had for you. I no longer think you made a mistake. You deliberately manipulated the votes.
I do suggest that somebody makes a new poll when you feel like it to avoid any mistakes at all. Oh apart from people making multiple accounts and making many votes, I had first hand experience in this and it is one reason I suggested we did it this way.
That's
trivial to solve. All your "first-hand experience" only shows is that you're completely incapable of running an election. You:
- Missed someone that isn't me
- Apparently deleted my vote for some reason and are now accusing me of "shit-stirring" on a site I help run
- Didn't even think to post a poll in a forum restricted to current members to prevent alts
But I doubt there would be a great difference in the votes either way.
That's not for you to decide. While the results look fine, you did clearly do
something with them.
Is there a way to hide the poll results until a specified time? Squevil wanted to do the PM method to make the votes anonymous so that everyone could vote for who they think should be on the council instead of just going with the flow or feeling like their vote for "insert nominee" is wasted so they don't end up voting for that person.
Yes, you can "only show votes after the poll has expired". That's standard functionality for SMF.
Something like http://ballotbin.com/ may satisfy everyone's concerns.
That is pretty good, but it feels like overengineering it. If people prefer that solution, it's perfectly fine by me, but I think a poll should already cover all bases.