OK. We've reached a maximum level of internet dorkery and need to come to a conclusion on how we represent our super-awesome three-letter opinions to the other 80 people who actually post here. I have decided, in an effort to exert my utilitarian-yet-autonomous power, to come up with this solution. It is as follows:
I also propose that we use these threads as the film's discussion thread moving forward and we can provide a link in the first thread to the film's thread, if it has one, in the Upcoming forum.
- There will be a subforum of the General Discussion Forum for 2012 (then 2013, etc...) films.
- Each film will get its own thread.
- The threads will be set up as a poll wherein you will be able to view who voted what.
- The poll options will be simply "yay" or "nay"
- I will enable for that forum only the ability to rate the thread. This will be for the use of rating the film. I have already changed the rating options to specify that you are rating the film and the five-star labels now say "PRO" through "CON."
- This feature has it built-in to add-up the total # of votes and create an average rating from 1 to 5 with decimals.
- This will be displayed at the top of the thread as well as on the main forum page under the thread's name (which will be the film's name).
- You can look in the Maintenance forum where I have tested this.
- Through my access to the MySQL database, I will extract every couple of days all the new votes and place in each film's initial post all votes, PRO through CON, and who voted what so you more easily see the votes.
- There will also be a stickied master thread where we can also keep the interesting stats such as most-viewed, most yay-ed, highest rating, and so forth.
This would also mean that the threads would be open indefinitely instead of closed soon after the year is over. However, importantly, I will not continue to update the first thread with the PRO/CON rating votes.
OK, let me know if anyone has any objections.