Hairstyle Contest winners announced!

[Gyson]

The simple fact that the "winners" appeared on the later pages shows the flaw in the design.

Standard human behavior is to go "ooh, I like this one, and this one, and this one... *flips page* Oooh! This one is cute, this one is cute..."

The simple fact that you *could* vote more than once, just in itself, shows the flawed nature of the system. Which is my biggest problem with it. And think they should learn from it next time. The forum software they're using doesn't prohibit them from using polls, they just chose not to for some reason.

That is not necessarily true. On the Everquest Next forums it is the first few posts/votes that tend to get an overwhelming number of likes (compared to the following pages) as the pages that follow are less and less likely to be read by players who typically have short attention spans. Having seen that all too often, if anything I would expect the first few entries to get the most "likes" via human nature, not the latter ones.

I'm sorry, but your argument is invalid. Why? Because over HALF of the voters voted incorrectly. It doesn't matter what they said or when they said it, objectively speaking, the rules were unclear. Even if they were clear to you, a system that half the people misunderstand is not a clear system.

And yet apparently HALF the voters voted correctly. Are we assuming they did so through dumb luck? In your mind the voters who misunderstood the voting are not at fault, the voters who understood the voting were simply lucky and/or blindly stumbled across the correct way, and SE is to blame for not writing instructions in a manner that a child can understand. Does that about sum it up?