Handle Scales: Brown? White? anything but Red!-Unofficial Poll!

Voting for brown or white scales? Select the responses that best represent how you feel.

  • Absolutely no white!

    Votes: 8 14.5%

  • Absolutely no brown!

    Votes: 4 7.3%

  • I could be talked into a flavor of white.

    Votes: 15 27.3%

  • I could be talked into a flavor of brown.

    Votes: 38 69.1%

  • We should consider uniting under a different color, not including red.

    Votes: 17 30.9%
  • Total voters
    55
  • Poll closed .
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EngrSorenson

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Let's rally the troops in the Blade Forum knife latest poll.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the time has come to make a choice.
If we stay divided, red will likely win the day. we can't have that.
(well... we can, and it wouldn't bother me too much, but what's the fun in that?)

So let's figure out which way to go.

Select up to two options
After 2 days, we can take direction from the popular choice. I'll change my vote accordingly, and I hope you will, too.
 
If this were a ranked-choice/instant-runoff poll, I'd go with:
1) White
2) Brown
3) Blue

So, I'm willing to switch to brown if it gets down to it.
However, perhaps if Red gets more than 50% in the initial poll, we should let them have their way.


From wikipedia: This system simulates a series of runoff elections. Voters may rank all candidates as their 1st choice, 2nd choice, 3rd choice, and so on rather than indicating support for only one candidate.[12] A candidate with the majority (more than 50%) of first choice votes (the number one spot on the ballot) wins the election outright.[13] If no candidate is the first choice of more than half of the voters, then all votes cast for the candidate with the fewest first choices are redistributed to the remaining candidates based on who is ranked next on each ballot. If this does not result in any candidate receiving a majority, further rounds of redistribution occur.[14][13]
 
Brown is my top choice
Red is my second choice
White is my third favorite choice
I'd really be fine with any one of these three colors
So, I guess if you want to pile on a vote... it's got to be Brown. ;)
 
r8shell said:
If this were a ranked-choice/instant-runoff poll, I'd go with:
White
Brown
Blue

So, I'm willing to switch to brown if it gets down to it.
However, perhaps if Red gets more than 50% in the initial poll, we should let them have their way.


From wikipedia: This system simulates a series of runoff elections. Voters may rank all candidates as their 1st choice, 2nd choice, 3rd choice, and so on rather than indicating support for only one candidate.[12] A candidate with the majority (more than 50%) of first choice votes (the number one spot on the ballot) wins the election outright.[13] If no candidate is the first choice of more than half of the voters, then all votes cast for the candidate with the fewest first choices are redistributed to the remaining candidates based on who is ranked next on each ballot. If this does not result in any candidate receiving a majority, further rounds of redistribution occur.[14][13]
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yeah, I was looking into that- I agree it's a superior method.
I don't think these polls have the capabilities, sadly, except that we could do it unanonymously and manually like you've indicated.
 
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EngrSorenson said:
yeah, I was looking into that- I agree it's a superior method.
I don't think these polls have the capabilities, sadly, except that we could do it anonymously and manually like you've indicated.
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Exactly.
Even if white+brown > red, I think there would be fewer hurt feelings if we don't consolidate our votes unless red gets under 50% outright.

Wait, I think I'm bad at math and need more coffee. If red has 51% then we wouldn't have enough votes to swing it anyway.
 
r8shell said:
Exactly.
Even if white+brown > red, I think there would be fewer hurt feelings if we don't consolidate our votes unless red gets under 50% outright.

Wait, I think I'm bad at math and need more coffee. If red has 51% then we wouldn't have enough votes to swing it anyway.
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Haha, I wasn't going to comment on it. Just trust the numbers ;)
What's going to happen is there's going to be a significant number of people who won't get this information, so even at it's best it's not going to be a huge swing one way or the other.
This is mostly for fun.

bigfish64 said:
This looks like the last income tax referendum ballot in Illinois. 😂
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That must have been Ill-a-nnoying.

sf fanatic said:

Brown? White? anything but Red! My exact thought when I feel a bowel movement coming on. 😝​

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You live life on the edge. 😨
 
a run off with the top 2 choices using the exact description? 1. Red vs 2. Brown - exact description, Black Cherry Sawcut vs Autumn Brown Sawcut
 
Snoopy1 said:
I may be wrong but i think that once the color is chosen waynorth waynorth will put up a poll of the types of that color we can choose.
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Yes. Charlie is going to let us pick a general color first, and then refine for specific shades of that color.
 
EngrSorenson said:
Haha, I wasn't going to comment on it. Just trust the numbers ;)
What's going to happen is there's going to be a significant number of people who won't get this information, so even at it's best it's not going to be a huge swing one way or the other.
This is mostly for fun.


That must have been Ill-a-nnoying.


You live life on the edge. 😨
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EngrSorenson said:
You live life on the edge. 😨
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I smoke, drink and ride a motorcycle, so yeah I try my best to do so. 😃
 
LOL! I can do any and every :D

The difficulty here is that any color variations can be done well and at the same time they can be done poorly...I just hope for the best.
 
Hmm, there was no red option, so I picked "not brown". I could be sold on green, but red/pink/magenta/black cherry/elderberry/uneven pinko camelbone are all preferable to any of the other options as far as I am concerned.
 
... and before anyone looks at the totals up there "by percent" and says "hey, wait a minute! There's more than 100%!"
It seems that the poll is smart enough to allow 2 votes, per my request, but it always calls the percent as the fraction of votes divided by the number of individual voters (not the total votes).
Expect the totals to end up between 100% and 200%.
 
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