The deadline for voting has passed. The Candidates | The Contest Details
The table holding the results is:
freshports.org=# \d design_results
Table "public.design_results"
Column | Type | Modifiers
---------+--------------+-------------------------------------------------------------
id | integer | not null default nextval('design_results_id_seq'::regclass)
user_id | integer | not null
choice1 | character(1) | not null
choice2 | character(1) | not null
choice3 | character(1) | not null
Indexes:
"user_id" UNIQUE, btree (user_id)
"fki_design_results_user_id" btree (user_id)
Check constraints:
"choice_all_different" CHECK (choice1 <> choice2 AND choice1 <> choice3 AND
choice2 <> choice3)
"valid_choices" CHECK ((choice1 = ANY (ARRAY['A'::bpchar, 'B'::bpchar, 'C'::bpchar])) AND
(choice2 = ANY (ARRAY['A'::bpchar, 'B'::bpchar, 'C'::bpchar])) AND (choice3 = ANY
(ARRAY['A'::bpchar, 'B'::bpchar, 'C'::bpchar])))
Foreign-key constraints:
"design_results_user_id" FOREIGN KEY (user_id) REFERENCES users(id)
freshports.org=#
The voting tally strategy involves ranking. First choice gets 4 points. Second choice get 2 points. Third choice gets 1 point.
Here are the results:
freshports.org=# select sum(rank) as rank, choice1 from freshports.org-# ( freshports.org(# select count(choice1) * 4 as rank, choice1 FROM design_results as first freshports.org(# group by choice1 freshports.org(# UNION freshports.org(# select count(choice2) * 2 as rank, choice2 FROM design_results as first freshports.org(# group by choice2 freshports.org(# UNION freshports.org(# select count(choice3) * 1 as rank, choice3 FROM design_results as first freshports.org(# group by choice3 freshports.org(# ) as tmp freshports.org-# group by choice1 freshports.org-# order by rank desc freshports.org-# ; rank | choice1 ------+--------- 306 | A 185 | C 181 | B (3 rows)
So yes, more people wanted option C (status quo) and option B than option A, but option A wins. By a significant margin.
Time to notify the winner.
Results are just sad…
option A is br0ken in firefox, isnt it?
If is is broken in Firefox, and I don’t see it broken, please provide a screen shot and details of your browser/OS and we will fix it.
hmmm, as far as i can see the .png files aren’t loaded correctly. And no matter what i tried i found no way to fix it. But as i can not reproduce the “error” on an other PC i won’t bother you with this. Thanks anyway!
I think the winning design looks great!
It renders a bit funny in Safari though (and perhaps Konq?).
Want a screenshot?
Yes please.
By the way, did you randomize the order of the options when they were presented for voting? Otherwise I would expect option A to get the most votes, even if all three options were identical.
Well, option A was visibly slower and more resource intensive (scrolling etc) in Opera 9.2 on WXP than the others. :-((
Besides that I think option B is visually better and more accessible, that is to say you find what you look for more easily, information just stand out more. IMHO.