Looks like your format has generated extra votes - a good thing.
Come on guys and gals. Still time to vote.
Yeah, tried a different approach using the poll system, seems to work! Although it (of course) has its advantages and disadvantages comparing to the formats that were used before..
Most of the critiscisms I received were on the 'being able to see the progress from the moment a member voted'. That has 2 sides imo: On the one way it might get potential voters curious, cause when they vote they'll see the racing in real time. On the other way it's taking away the surprise element from the ones that care about the SOTM comp (the voters) cause they already know who'll win by looking at the results progress (3000+ members don't see this until they vote btw)...
In my observation the members that actually vote are sorry this surprise element disappeared in this format. So I searched for contact with Tone and asked him to enable the option on the poll system of this forum to enable the poll configuration 'Show results after the poll's expiry date has passed'. But unfortunately there was no way to enable that option (and Tone really, really tried).
So for next month we can choose between the poll system (that results in more votes, but takes away the surprise for the members that care about the SOTM) or the PM system (that results in less votes, but keeps the surprise element for the members who care).
Thanks for commenting and voting Digger! MM
i'm really surprised there haven't been more votes...c'mon folks!
Hey PaulAds, well, I managed to crank the amount of votes by 30-45% compared to last month I think, but I totally agree we should promote these competitions (without spamming the community) and try to motivate our members to paticipate!
Since you seem to have interest and motivation on the SOTM competition, am I rude to ask if you'd like to host the SOTM September comp? MM