Changes to Kinks of the Month Polls for Fairer and More Varied Results
Added 2021-09-24 05:42:43 +0000 UTCAs you know, the Kinks of the Month (KotM) polls have been a thing for quite a while now and are now directly responsible for deciding the focus of 2 out of 3 updates every month, i.e. 66% of the game's content. They have largely worked quite well, but there is definitely an issue with the same ~8 kinks taking turns to win again and again. Also, despite the extra vote given to $3+ patrons, from past results, this hasn't actually been a single month where this actually changed any of the top 2 winning kinks from the normal poll.
So from this month onwards, I'm introducing 2 changes to the KotM polls:
- Firstly, the exclusion period from future polls for each winning kink is increased from 2 months to 3 months (meaning even the most popular kink can only win max once every 4 months, or 3 times a year).
- Secondly, on the 24th of each month, there will now be 3 polls posted on Patreon - each patron is asked to vote in one poll only meant for their tier:
-- x1 Weighted Poll for $1 to $4 Patrons
-- x3 Weighted Poll for $5 to $9 Patrons
-- x9 Weighted Poll for $10 or above Patrons
This will allow more kinks to be worked on and higher-tier patrons to have a proper say.
The math behind the new poll weightings for the different tiers of patrons is as follows: At the time of this post, there are:
- 239 patrons supporting between $1 to $4, their votes are weighted x1 so they provide 239 effective votes
- 81 patrons supporting between $5 to $9, their votes are weighted x3 so they provide 243 effective votes
- 28 patrons supporting at $10 or above, their votes are weighted x9 so they provide 252 effective votes
This is fair because the influence on the poll results ends up being divided pretty equally between the 3 groups of patrons (32.6%, 33.1% & 34.3% respectively), and the higher tier patrons can actually have a say rather than being outnumbered all the time.
Thank you for all of your support of the project! Kinks of Month are now such a big part of it that hopefully these changes will make the process fairer and more interesting for all involved.
Comments
still think that'll result in the same 8-ish in a rotation-fair enough, they are obviously the 8 most common fetishes and if the fans can choose they'll choose them. but in that case update 3 you will need to pick from one of those that gets little to no love from the fanbase, so as an example Toys only has 1 vote as of this writing. I understand, update 3 may be needed for tech issues or elements that aren't in the polls like clothes/hair or some element I'm not even thinking of, and you need to do your commissioned content wherever you can fit it in as well. I don't know if your polls can allow for priority but if so voting for 1, 2, 3, etc. might also be a tool you can use
2021-09-25 18:22:45 +0000 UTCSeems like a pretty fair system
Ryan Fox
2021-09-24 23:20:29 +0000 UTC
