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Here is the new system for voting.

Heiarchy Selection System (Yes, I had to give it a fancy name, just for the hell of it)

The Heiarchy Selection System (HSS) is a system that I believe will make voting more fair, more accurate, and force the voters to actually critique the images rather than throw a random first place and walk away.

How does it work?

Let's create a theoretical situation to explain it easily.

Let's say that we have 10 entries for a SOTW battle. Voters would proceed to make their votes from "Most Favorite" to "Least Favorite" in this fashion:

1,6,3,8,4,5,9,10,2,7

We will then assign points to the order. Since we have 10 submissions in this theoretical situation, 10 points will be the maximum. And thus, we have this turn out for the above vote:

1 - 10 points
6 - 9 points
3 - 8 points
8 - 7 points
4 - 6 points
5 - 5 points
9 - 4 points
10 - 3 points
2 - 2 points
7 - 1 point

This point system will allow for, as previously stated, a more accurate vote. In some cases where a submission doesn't get any votes at all, it does not mean that it was the least favorite of everyone who voted.

Also, for people who are split between two or more images, they can do something like the following:

1=6,3,8,4,5,9=10=2,7

The point turn out would then look like this:

1 - 10 points
6 - 10 points
3 - 8 points
8 - 7 points
4 - 6 points
5 - 5 points
9 - 4 points
10 - 4 points
2 - 4 points
7 - 1 point

As you can see, the points of equivalent votes are the same as the points of whatever was the highest in the equivalence chain. The other points will remain the same based on their rank.

By allowing this, it will not hurt a submission's chance at winning just because someone played spin the bottle with a couple images and voted for a random one, leaving one or more perfectly worthy candidates with nothing at all.

I believe that this system will be much more effective in truely deciding who won the competition for the week. We will use it as a test run for the first competition to see if the results bode as favorable in comparison to just a poll.

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Rate from how Duo explained above (ranking something first number=best, last number=worst. EX: 4,2,7,3,6,1,5,9,8<--Feel free to post it or to PM it to me, but DON'T do both >.<)