Re: [eclipsecon-na-program-committee] the votes and the stars

[Sebastian Zarnekow <Sebastian.Zarnekow@xxxxxxxxx>]

I totally second that. Rather than rating 3 stars I won't vote if I don't have an opinion (yet).

Best,

Sebastian

On 05.11.2014, at 22:47, Ian Bull <irbull@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

0 has one meaning: I haven't formed an opinion. If at the end, I still haven't voted then it means I haven't formed an opinion at all. By using 0 (no vote) in this way, it forces you to come back and revisit the talks without simply giving them a 3. By giving all talks that are out-of-your-expertise a 3, you will influence the average (and possibly pull talks down that the experts would have otherwise selected).

Cheers,

Ian

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Eike Stepper <stepper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Am 05.11.2014 um 19:35 schrieb Ian Skerrett:

Eike,

 

It you don’t know about a session then I would suggest to not vote at all. If you vote 3 that will impact the overall average of a session so that session could get selected even though you didn’t have an opinion.

That's exactly the purpose. If everybody follows that rule we just need to look at the average vote to see a correct overall ordering. In addition everybody can see who's not voted on what sessions. Of course this mechanism relies heavily on the fact that everybody votes for every session. But with the assumption that it's just okay to vote 3 for "I don't know or don't have an opinion" that should be doable.

This approach avoids two problems:

a) No vote number is overloaded with two meanings (as with Ian's approach where 0 means "Not voted, yet" OR "Don't know" and can't be used to detect missing votes).
b) There's no single ordering of the huge session table that reveals the overall preference of the PC.

Cheers
/Eike

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