Do you wish to accept the following as official Polling Commission standards?


External Discussion thread relevant to the poll should have been up for at least 24 hours, and the discussion within brought to a conclusion prior to the posting of the poll.
Draft poll proposal should be posted and discussed prior to the posting of the poll
Poll should be linked to in the Poll Registry
Poll should be linked to in relevant discussion thread
Poll Poll question should be posed in an unbiased manner
Poll options should be unbiased and easy to understand
Poll should contain an "Abstain" option
First Post Participation requirement should be stated in first post of poll
Running time should be stated in first post of poll
First post of poll should contain link to relevant discussion thread
Please post a vote of "Yes", "No" or "Abstain" in answer to the above question. Votes by non-members of the Polling Standards Commission will not be counted.

This poll will run until either "Yes" or "No" votes constitute an unbeatable majority, or until a maximum running time of 48 hours has been reached.

Poll resulted from discussion in this thread (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=52260).

Hmm...

There doesn't seem to be a link to the discussion thread in the first post. :nono:

I vote yes. Although some elements are not strictly required that can be handled with the scoring and weighting and these are a good poll foundation. For example there's no real need for abstain unless there is also a participation requirement. If no participation requirement is given then we could take off no points for not having abstain.

Originally posted by Shaitan
Hmm...

There doesn't seem to be a link to the discussion thread in the first post. :nono:
Tis fixed now, but shame on me nonetheless... http://www.gamecatcher.net/fora/images/smiles/nerve.gif

@shai: That's because the polling standards haven't been accepted yet. ;)

But, I say yes.

I will abstain. A poll meeting these standards would surely be a good poll but I'm not sure how useful these standards would be if adopted. I am particularly concerned with the subjective standards that use the term *unbiased*. It would be great if we could make these two standards more objective.

I appreciate what your saying Donsig but we need to start somewhere. There wasnt much feedback from the group as a whole so it seemed like a good idea to propose Shaitan's standards for adoption. When we have a framework in place it should be easier to make refinements on issues such as objectivity and other concerns so it is a yes vote from me
:)

A yes vote from me. This is an easy to understand method of doing it.

I vote YES, as these should all be considered standard polling procedure. I do agree with donsig that we should better define the first two Poll bullet points, but don't think that it should keep us from putting these standards in place.

Yes

I will vote Yes. However, I would like to see a new standard that says that all polls will be open for at least 48 hours.

current yes vote tally = 6/12

(total number of members = 13, 1 abstention leaves 12)

I vote yes, with looking towards redefining the first two standards the way donsig suggested.

7/12 constitutes an unbeatable majority. Standards have been officially accepted by the membership of the Polling Standards Commission.