VOTE Now! on the 2017 element14 RoadTesters of the Year

Shabaz has 4 chances, Inderpreet and Doug have 2.  Will their scores be scaled accordingly?

I doubt it would change the voting much, but I definitely find this format a bit confusing.

In the past we voted for the best specific road test.

Here we seem to be voting for the road tester, which implies voting for the body of work by the road tester, which is fine.

However the poll doesn't list the entire set of road tests for each of the road testers, which is the confusing part for me, but the list is still more or less representative of the body of work.

One perennial problem is the timing of the poll doesn't allow great road tests like the recent Keysight road test by rachaelp to be included. I hope that one makes it into next year's poll.

but I definitely find this format a bit confusing.

In the past we voted for the best specific road test.

I'm with you!.

This is the text from the nominations NOMINATIONS OPEN for the 2017 element14 RoadTesters of the Year

I invite you (at your leisure) to go through your favorite roadtests and reviews. Take some time and read the reviews. Then post a link to the review in the comments section below. The links should represent the best of the best RoadTest Reviews for any RoadTest launched in 2017.

 

Here's what I will do with them:

1. I will aggregate them and my team will go through them and prune them down to the top 20 nominations.

2. I will then create a poll where you can vote for your single and most favorite review.

3. After the poll closes, we will tabulate the results and announce the 2017 RoadTesters of the Year.

No 2 definately suggests we would be voting for a "single and most favourite review".

There was some discussion around entries not included in the list but this one changes all sorts.

The roadtests we launched in at least novemeber and december probably won't have reviews since the 60 days will be up. Something we have to live with.

So as someone else pointed out, we might have excluded the RT's that kicked off in 2016, but also we've excluded some of the RT's that were launched in 2017 because of a rush to start the voting before holiday season.

Mark

Thanks everyone for your comments.

I think when we talked about it initially, we wanted to reward individual members for their contribution to the roadtest program.

I think I need to re-assess the requirements next time. It wasn't solely mean to be who gets the most votes. Nor was it meant to be who did the most roadtests, either. But we surely wanted members to have their voices heard. Enthusiasm, timeliness, creativity, the fun factor, frequent updates, participation in commenting on other peoples' roadtests all were on my mind when I proposed this award. If I only did it for for the reviews, I think some of the more subtle considerations of the winners would be missed.

I guess I need to clarify things a lot more.

Randall

Thanks everyone for your comments.

I think when we talked about it initially, we wanted to reward individual members for their contribution to the roadtest program.

I think I need to re-assess the requirements next time. It wasn't solely mean to be who gets the most votes. Nor was it meant to be who did the most roadtests, either. But we surely wanted members to have their voices heard. Enthusiasm, timeliness, creativity, the fun factor, frequent updates, participation in commenting on other peoples' roadtests all were on my mind when I proposed this award. If I only did it for for the reviews, I think some of the more subtle considerations of the winners would be missed.

I guess I need to clarify things a lot more.

Randall