EN World New feature--Ranked Polls!

[Morrus]

Testing again. Currently only works here in Meta, but will be rolled out soon.

Ranked polls allow you to have a 'voting competition' where by people can upvote or downvote certain entries. This could be fun for photo contests, or ongoing "What's the best RPG?" type thing. It's a little different to regular polls--it makes it very easy to see what order things are voted in and keeps a constant ranked 'chart'. It looks a bit like this:

Each post below has a little arrow to the right. You can click that arrow to upvote an entry.

• In this poll you can only vote for certain 'whitelisted' entries, not just every reply.
• I've also set this one to upvotes only.
• (I think you still have to refresh to see the results)
• Threadstarter gets to choose the options--
  • Allow only 'whitelisted' posts for voting (like I have here) or allow all replies to be voted on
  • Disable downvotes--you can have just upvotes, or upvotes plus downvotes (my suggestion is just up, as upping one and downing others is just double dipping)
  • Start/end dates for contest or leave open
  • Number of competition winners (these show at the top of the thread when/if the contest ends)
• Either the threadstarter could add all the entries they want and whitelist only use.
• The threadstarter could enable all replies to be voted on.
• The threadstarter could invite entries and choose which to whitlelist and include in the contest.

The threadstarter's options look like this:

If you choose the whitelisting option, only entries the threadstarter approves can be votes on. If you don't, all replies can be voted in. The threadstarter can approve posts by using the control at the bottom of each thread next to the Report and Edit functions:

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The contest is ongoing unless the threadstarter sets an end date, in which case it will close and look like this:

Anyway, feel free to play! I'm setting permissions so this can be done by anyone in the Meta forum. Once I'm sure it works as intended I'll make it available elsewhere.

 

[Morrus]

Star Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.

 

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Star Trek
Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon.

 

[Morrus]

Battlestar Galactica
A group of humans aboard a battleship, Battlestar Galactica, are forced to abandon their planet after being attacked by Cylons. They try to evade the Cylons while searching for their true home, Earth.

 

[Morrus]

A reply which you shouldn't be able to vote for.

 

[Morrus]

Doctor Who
The Doctor, a mysterious 2,000-year-old time traveller, and his companions journey across time and space in a ship known as TARDIS.

 

[Morrus]

Hopefully this can't get votes either.

 

[Morrus]

Alien(s)
Ellen Ripley is sent back to the planet LV-426 to establish contact with a terraforming colony. Once there, she encounters the Alien Queen and her offspring and has to fight them to survive.

 

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Stargate(s)
On a secret mission, Jack O'Neill returns to Planet Abydos to search for scientist Daniel Jackson. O'Neill finds him and learns about a series of hieroglyphics that suggest a map of several Stargates.

 

[Morrus]

Red Dwarf
Features the adventures of the last human being alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.