Or, give them the ability to sort the list the way THEY want it (by song title, by artist, by release date, by other people's rankings, etc.)
And I like the 1-5 ranking (with a zero being "unmarked"). I can picture a gmail-like star set (5 of them), that you click on, one for each row. (Also like the rating system in itunes). On 8/1/06, Snake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well 40 items have to displayed in some order, so something is always gonna > be at the bottom. So alphabetical seems as fair a method as any. > You could have a 1-5 points systems allowing people to vote on any song they > like, and have another page that displays them in order of highest points. > You can then work out the mean average value based on the number of points > voted for each title. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 01 August 2006 21:26 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Hey, does anyone have any ideas regarding a "top 40" voting system? > > I've been asked to help out a friend conceptually, but I'm not sure exactly > how to proceed. He wants to have a "top 40" voting system where they will > put 40 song titles up on a web page, and people will "vote" on them. > > Sounds pretty simple, but I'm not sure about what would be the best way. He > seems to be leaning toward "we'll put them on the site, and people will put > them in the order that they want them in" but that sounds kinda clumsy and > unwieldy. I can't see people having the patience to REALLY do that. What > about the ones near the bottom? Would people just get tired after about 20 > of them and just submit? What would you do about ones that don't get "votes" > or aren't filled in? What order would you present the songs in? Alphabetical > seems the likely choice, but what about all the songs that begin with "W" or > "T" or the ones shoved to the bottom? Would the songs beginning with A > naturally gravitate to the top simply because of the way they're presented > to the user? > > Do you see where I'm coming from? Has anyone ever built a voting tabulation > system to do something like this? > > I was leaning towards a "points system" where maybe people picked their top > ten songs, and they got a point value based on their ranking. 10 points for > first place, 9 for second, etc, and totaling up all the "scores" each song > gets. > > I realize that a TRUE top 40 system is a system that rewards sales, and so > I'm struggling with how to rectify "voting" for something that would > normally be easily to tabulate. > > Any suggestions, both from an interface standpoint, and the pure tabulations > standpoint? > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:248567 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
