You do know, right, that even if your No Award vote is eliminated, it comes back for the "No Award Showdown test" at the end of the process:
I am indeed aware - hence my footnote about skipping the No Award test because it would overcomplicate the example.
The important thing here is that your votes below No Award are saying, "I don't really want this candidate to win at all, but if it must win, I prefer it over the others I've ranked lower." Your vote ends up showing a preference between the candidates you don't like that much while still having a technical possibility of knocking it off completely when it comes to the No Award Showdown.
Yup. But if your No Award is not widely shared - for example, when you're voting No Award over Doctor Who in the "Best Doctor Who Episode Written By Stephen Moffat" category - you aren't going to knock it out at the end. And you *are*, likely inadvertently, expressing a preference for your "downvote" over all other things you didn't mention. Which is my point.
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Date: 2014-05-14 04:44 am (UTC)I am indeed aware - hence my footnote about skipping the No Award test because it would overcomplicate the example.
The important thing here is that your votes below No Award are saying, "I don't really want this candidate to win at all, but if it must win, I prefer it over the others I've ranked lower." Your vote ends up showing a preference between the candidates you don't like that much while still having a technical possibility of knocking it off completely when it comes to the No Award Showdown.
Yup. But if your No Award is not widely shared - for example, when you're voting No Award over Doctor Who in the "Best Doctor Who Episode Written By Stephen Moffat" category - you aren't going to knock it out at the end. And you *are*, likely inadvertently, expressing a preference for your "downvote" over all other things you didn't mention. Which is my point.