Contest #24: Spriting Tournament

[Silverthorn]

With the poll closing tomorrow, I'd just like to evaluate whether I should keep the hidden vote system for the next rounds. As of now, it seems slightly ambiguous:

I really like that the results are hidden!

I don't like that the results are hidden.

I personally agree with @Marko's view on that matter, just for the record:

And i like hidden results. It makes your decision for whom to vote completely unbiased, rather than just bandwagoning the one with the most votes. It's all about you and your opinion, the most fair way.

@Gad, it's statistical probabiblity, i reckon that majority of members (regular members) will visit forum within 4 days depends on how busy they are, while there is no pattern when those "irregular" memebers will visit forum so likelihood of irregular member visiting forum on 5th, 6th and 7th day is equal to likelihood of irregular member visiting forum on 15th, 16th and 17th day. The point is that yes, there will be more votes if deadline is longer, but imo insignificant amount of votes. Winner was probably clear after 3rd day of voting.

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The reason why I like to keep polls open for a week is because you can't simply argue via simple statistics when the majority of the votes will come in. You'll have to keep in mind that weekends usually entail a larger pool of potential voters.

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Simple model but probably (see what I did there? ) a bit more accurate.