On 04/02/14 18:32, Ernesto Priego wrote:
Me again. Sorry!
Another alternative would be to allow people to vote only for the ones they really know and therefore want to vote for. Does anyone actually know all the projects ? They are a lot... honestly I wonder how many people actually clicked on all the links here http://dhawards.org/dhawards2013/voting/ before voting... Something tells me that having to vote for all the projects means many votes will be given completely at random. Am I alone in thinking this?
I'm sorry you find the lack of links on the actual voting form so problematic. I could re-examine this I suppose but the point is you are meant to decide on who you are voting for before going to the form.
I don't know where you get the idea that you need to vote for all categories...while of course I would encourage that, it is not a requirement. The *only* required fields are name and email address (which I use only to track those who seem to think scripting voting is a good idea).
You seem to be missing the point though. The DH Awards are not primarily about getting some accurate measure of the 'best' in any of these categories. To do that would necessitate having individuals vote who actually could assess these properly and make informed decisions. Since it is open voting, I agree that this is unlikely. The main point of the DH Awards is one of awareness. Even if people only look at a very few of the resources, or even just see their names in the categories, then there is some benefit. If good resources happen to win in their categories, then that is also good. I've already seen this working by having people tell me that they had never heard of project X Y or Z until they had seen them in the list.
-James