Indianapolis, IN
What game has your favorite PLAYFIELD ART? Vote here!
https://goo.gl/forms/9KQJbAD8KVmGAKVW2
(Last weeks top 10 favorite MAGNET ACTION can be found here: https://thisweekinpinball.com/top-10-magnet-action-in-pinball-machines/)
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Quoted from mrossman5:You can use this for some reference.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/what-is-the-best-looking-pinball-machine
That Farfalla machine...
Quoted from J85M:Agree o-din it would be great if pin2d could use something other than google accounts to do votes, like you I would like to participate but don’t want to sign up to yet another site/account pin2d wouldn’t pinside polls work just as well or not?
Yeah, I hear you Odin and @j85m, it isn't a perfect voting system. The logic for using google forms is that I run into a lot of people on Facebook and Twitter and on TWIP that don't have Pinside accounts (or don't actively participate in Pinside forums), so I'm trying to include as many in the hobby as possible for the votes.
I tried Survey Monkey in the past but it turned very expensive once you get over a certain number of votes (I think 1000?).
It seems like a higher percentage of pinball hobbyists have google accounts vs those that actively participate on Pinside, or at least the ones that are interested in voting (if that makes sense). At least that is kind of the rational behind using Google forms.
Quoted from o-din:Well, the truth is you keep starting these contests on pinside which itself has it's own polling feature, so I'm sure I'm not alone when I see VOTE HERE in the title of the thread as a little misleading and then there are no choices to vote from.
So we don't really know if you are using our input into the choices or if you have just randomly picked a few you like and then basically decide for yourself what goes in the poll that we can't see anyway.
It kind of makes the whole venture useless and pointless, and wherever you do post the results an insignificant publication.
I honestly don't really care and will try not to be baited into opening another one of these threads again. Just trying to show you how it looks to the average user here if you are trying to take it or yourself seriously.
Thanks for the thoughts @o-din, I get what you're saying. I'm just trying to not limit the votes to only those that frequent Pinside. By using the google forms, I lose out on the people that don't have a Google account, but I can include the people that frequent Pinside plus the people that frequent Facebook or Twitter or This Week in Pinball.
Quoted from J85M:Plenty of pinheads don’t visit and use Pinside.
pin2d is it possible for you to duplicate the polls on Pinside, for those without google accounts that would like to participate in TWIP each week?
Obviously I appreciate that probably leads to a little more work your end, so I can appreciate if that’s your reasoning for not already doing so.
I've been working on some different options. I'd like to host the polls on the TWIP website itself eventually if possible. I've got some awesome pinheads that I talked to this weekend that are going to help out on some backend stuff with the website, including polls. So hopefully we'll see something new soon! For now just gotta go with "best option".
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