comments, queries, complaints and suggestions

[votingmod]

Hello from your Term XXVIII Voting Manager, musikurt.

As the subject states, if you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, etc, please feel free to drop a message right here, and I will respond to you as soon as I can. If you know a member who has created a new journal and wants to be re-sorted, you can also vouch for them here!

You can also check the Sorting FAQ to see if your question has been answered there.

Comments are screened for privacy.

Thanks!
- Curtis

Comments

[votingmod.livejournal.com]

1. I'm following up on this with the HiH Mods. I don't remember an announcement of this changing, but I also might have missed it or it may not have been prominent. I think it's important to have such a policy in place, so if it has been removed, I'll be advocating for it (or at least something) to be reinstated if possible.

2. I plan to look at all of the various templates and try to streamline things where possible. I don't know that I'll get it done before I stamp for this first week, but definitely plan to have some revisions in place soon.

3. I'll consider this. I have to tally the numbers up anyway and had planned on doing something with the overall numbers at some point (termly averages, etc.) so I'll think on what some of the ways of reporting the data back that would be meaningful and/or fun could be.

[votingmod.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads up! I've updated the profile page to reflect the larger file size and will work to make sure it gets updated anywhere else in the community pages.

[votingmod.livejournal.com]

The minimum requirement is 13, which is the same requirement as creating a LiveJournal account due to COPPA regulations. That said, the community's rating is BBC-15, which, while similar in some ways to other ratings (like PG-13 in the US), does differ a bit, and everyone should consider that in making a decision about whether the community will be right for them.

Hope that helps!

[votingmod.livejournal.com]

Hi and welcome!

That's a good question and it's once that has been discussed in the community a few times over the years. While there are likely some cases of people 'sheep' voting and it's easy to be concerned about people being influenced by others' votes, it's always difficult to say for sure if that is happening - it could be that the application is very clearly indicative of a specific house.

Ultimately, we've decided not to screen comments (except on applications of returning members as there have been times where those sortings have become tense or controversial) because of the social nature of sorting (we have a number of members who enjoy reading how other people have voted) and because of our common use of sigtags and the desire to display the work of our talented graphics makers within the community. Additionally, unscreened comments has been the practice for most sorting communities on LiveJournal over the years and it has generally worked well for us.

Since we do offer the ability to appeal if you feel like your sorting just wasn't quite right (which is a process that involves additional questions and screened voting by a smaller panel of community members representing all four houses), I think that we have a good avenue in those rare cases where the sorting might be skewed by 'sheep' voting in a way that goes against the applicant's personality as reflected by the answers to the questions.

Let me know if you have any further questions or suggestions.

-Curtis