Board Thread:Administrator's Forum/@comment-143604-20130419212451/@comment-4484220-20130722233129

Okay, we're pretty sure that's all the input we're going to get, so Leo has permitted me to do a tally of all the supports/opposes.

Option 1: 6 points

Supporters: Lasifer (3), HaydenStudios (3), Drayco90 (2), El Alamein (2), Redkite (2)

Opposers: Leolab (-3), Arrow7000 (-2), MrPacheco101 (-1)

Option 2: 7 points

Supporters: Redkite (3), Leolab (2), Arrow7000 (2), MrPacheco101 (2), Lasifer (1)

Opposers: HaydenStudios (-3)

Option 3: 1 point

Supporters: Leolab (3), MrPacheco101 (2), Redkite (1)

Opposers: HaydenStudios (-3), Lasifer (-2)

Arrow's compromise: 4 points

Supporters: Arrow7000 (3), Drayco90 (2), HaydenStudios (2), Redkite (2)

Opposers: Leolab (-3), Lasifer (-2)

If we were to determine the results based on the number of points shown above, then option 2 would get a slim victory over option 1 with Arrow's compromise not falling far behind, and option three getting left in the dust.

Perhaps I am merely biased and desparate to get my way, but there are a few things about these numbers that bother me that I can't keep silent about.

The first thing is that, while I felt opposition towards options 3 and possibly 2 were implied by Drayco and EA's supports for option 1, I couldn't quite bring myself to jot them down as opposers since their posts technically didn't contain the word "oppose," but at the same time I feel there is some merit to interpretting their opinions as opposition toward the other side of the argument. It just doesn't quite feel right that two users with different views on this but equal passion can have such different net influences on the numbers simply due to needing to fit this vote counting system (I.E., Drayco increasing option 1 by 2, but Leo decreasing it by 3 and increasing option 3 by 3). If we were to get so much as a weak oppose from either Drayco or EA, this would be a tie, and if we got one from each, option 1 would win. Or if we got opposes from both, then option 1 would win by a sizeable margin.

Another thing that bothers me is that Drayco and EA's descriptions weren't specific on what extent of support they were giving, leaving me to speculate. Drayco's support could very well have been interpretted as a strong support, in which case this would tie up the scores (not including the possibilities mentioned in the previous paragraph).

And yet another thing that bothers me is that if we didn't have opposes count against any of these options, option 1 would be at 12 points ahead of option 2's 10. Signifying that there is indeed more support for option 1 than there is option 2.

I'm interested in seeing what others thing of this evaluation.