oranges wrote:whatever dude, I've spent enough time humouring the alt and their 2 month play time and frankly at this point it's just sour grapes.
Don't forget ignoring the non alt and slinging personal attack and guesses to motivation. Is it difficult to have a civil discussion and back and forth about the merit of the poll and motivations behind it?
It was troubling to see you put the data in motion that if you remove the double barrel question it would lead to x result. That is not how it works, its not how any of this works. That isnt the setup at the time of the vote and filtering it out makes the data even more suspect.
I acknowledge your point about the decision to exclude a null option. Was this also your opinion for not including null option after picking your primary choices? Normally this allows for easier extrapolation of exactly what you were trying to do. Null options make it much clearer where the voting base generally is leaning to. This helps parse an IRV with additional benchamarks of agreement.
Again while I prefer the cat race stay in as its content is enjoyed/accepted by at minimum 203 active players, the inclusion of double barrel options and not including a null after option seems less genuine and more of a going through the motions exercise. Which doesn't make much sense to me. The compromise solution works but likely would not have been needed if the poll was structured in a more neutral fashion. This again being my opinion based on experience and general observation.
I also acknowledge this was potentially all a long game troll/meme on your part. If that is a source of enjoyment for you then /shrug carry on.