I would if I could vote without seeing all the spoiled voters. vote by PM and you could post votes after the show out of spoilers? dunno

Interesting idea, I'll give it some thought. There are three immediate problems I can see with doing something like that:

1. It's a lot of work for whoever (i.e me) is on the receiving end of the e-mails. Actually, it just occured to me, if I could get someone designated for that job, a volunteer.. complicated, and still work for someone.

2. Part of the fun is actually reading others' views and takes on things, a simple tally of write-in votes would either not have that or, again, be a lot of work for whoever posts all that stuff.

3. It's not actually my voting thread, it's the RTVW Survivor voting thread. I took over doing it from the guys who used to do it, if I were to stop doing it then someone else would just have to take over doing it. I've played around with the wording of the rules but the rules aren't even my rules and haven't changed that much since I took over. Cosmetic changes, for my own amusement or to deal with the changes in the show over the years or to clarify the voting thread when a controversy develops, those I have no problem doing. This, though, would be a huge change in how things are done, I'd be assuming authority beyond what I'm comfortable with.

That said, however, I will give it some thought, some more thought. And if you want to know the truth, I think the anti-sigpic rule is just silly, but it came with the job.

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It's that the vote is in the subject, that's what is keeping me from voting since the super-spoilers have come about. I just don't see getting a turnout from the non spoiled if 20 votes are for the same person and missyae or whoever is the reasoning for voting.

Game free? Come over to the dark side. Games are evolving towards the unspoiled, even kircon's PTTE has a PM version. The games focus on happenings rather then vote or who's booted.

Check out ARW's format for his game, you might be able to use that somehow or the only other thing I can think of is to not have the bootee in the subject line.

I usually vote. And I'll continue to vote however it's set up. I completely understand your wanting to keep is simple.

And I appreciate you for the weekly threads, you've been doing it for as long as I can remember. Thanks.

When I open the voting threads, I see the post list. And these days I know from that what the sourced spoilers are saying, and from that I can deduce which tribe won the IC. So in effect there are two aspects to each episode that are spoiled until the tribes merge. Sometimes I'll scan the individual posts, but I can also reply from your original post without seeing them.

Perhaps, if you were to change the instructions slightly so that the subject line (which shows up in the post list) just says something like "I Vote For..." and put the actual vote plus comments in the body, we could avoid seeing the list of votes if we reply to the initial post, or use a fast scroll?

Doing it via PM would be OK, except that it really wouldn't be fair to you to have to collate a bunch of PM's, every week.

Yeah, I know, having the votes in the subject line is a stickler, which is why I wrote out those guidelines at the start of this thread. There actually is a reason for it. And that's another one of those things I inherited, changing it would be a problem simply because I cannot guarantee anyone would follow the rule change. I mean, keep it a secret okay, just between you and me.. I actually can't enforce any of the rules. It's been this way so long I don't know if anyone even bothers to read what I post before casting their votes.

I did add that advisory awhile back, right up top, and the spoilers have been good about keeping to this week ever since, not advancing their observations into things like "boot list says this this week, then so-and-so She-Devils next week, and then the Pagonging begins with..." Right?

Anyway, changing that rule, I'll keep it in mind.

I'll tell you what, though, I'll figure out something for next week, give suzzee's email write-in idea a trial spin around the block somehow. Not really what I was hoping for when I started this thread, but what the heck, I've got some ideas how to make it work, might as well.

Thanks dabo for trying to figure this out. I don't vote unless the boot isn't spoiled. I don't like the jumping on the band wagon feeling when everyone is voting for the same person.

Putting the name in the subject field was fine when there was close to 100 voters like this:

http://community.realitytvworld.com/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/rtvw2/community/dcboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=739&forum=DCForumID2&archive=yes

(I know how to pick 'em, don't I? Outback's E6, for a long time considered the most shoking episode)

But today? with 20 voters? It wouldn't take that long. Of course, people vote without reading your comments so you'd have to put something in the thread's title.

Yeah, them were the days. We walked 10 miles uphill to get to the boards, dial-up snow up to your head the whole way! Heheheheheh. Joined the boards around that time. That, actually, was the first week I really paid much attention to spoilers, I was watching the show with my children (young kids at the time) and was really only concerned about whether we should even watch that episode. As it happened we did watch but I kept the remote in my hand the whole time ready to switch channels if it got too extreme.

So, you think we should have a catch-22 rule change? Get rid of the vote in the subject line, get more activity on the vote threads, re-invent the reason for the rule in the first place? LOL! It's on the table, okay. But there actually is another reason for keeping the rule, beside it's how it's always been done, and beside the fact that even if I change it I have no way of enforcing it. Finale vote threads pretty much have to be that way, they would be a big big mess without it.

Thanks for suggesting this idea. You're completely right in guessing that I'm not voting due to potential spoilers. I'm worried that being in that thread last week, I might've accidentally seen a bunch of "Shannon"s in the subject line while scrolling.

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