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On Thread vs. Poll, I'm a thread person.
We've been doing it that way since 1936. Some of the best discussions that we've ever had relating to the league have been in these threads, and are linked back to in one of the early posts in the thread each year.
I like public votes as well for two reasons.
They encourage discussion if you disagree with someone specifically. I disagreed with some of Matt's votes over the years, and he with some of mine. It would lead to us either questioning why a vote was/wasn't made by the other, or to do an advocacy post in support of a candidate that we thought should be in.
They also allow one to monitor vote manipulation. On a board like this it's pretty easy to socko it up. I'd rather have 20 ballots of people we generally know rather than 50 ballots and not having a clue why Loren Cost got 30 votes. It's far easier with public voting to toss on the woodpile the votes of people who are f'ing with the process.
I do think there are places for polls. I just don't think this is one of them.
John
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