What do you want to happen to "fast threads"?

[AgnesIO]

That doesn't change the fact that "Don't change anything and let them continue" was the most popular option, as it received the most votes. Like I've said already, I really don't think anything needs to be done anyway and so I'm not really surprised that that was the option which received the most votes. There are already rules in place to deal with threads have no point and that really need to be dealt with, not to mention the problems with differentiating between a 'fast' thread and a 'normal' thread because of a difference of opinion which could cause arguments. So yeah, I still stand by my vote that nothing big like a sub forum needs to be done.

But more people voted that they didn't want them left as they are..

62 people voted one of the top four options, 41 people voted the keep them as they are option.

If you ask 100 people to pick fruit and 41 people pick Apple's, you cannot then say that more people selected an Apple than all the other fruits put together. For the final option to work, you would have to have 51 people or more to vote for it. Or in the poll example, you'd need a minimum of 52 people to vote for them to stay as they are.

[Mr-Trainor]

But more people voted that they didn't want them left as they are..

62 people voted one of the top four options, 41 people voted the keep them as they are option.

If you ask 100 people to pick fruit and 41 people pick Apple's, you cannot then say that more people selected an Apple than all the other fruits put together. For the final option to work, you would have to have 51 people or more to vote for it. Or in the poll example, you'd need a minimum of 52 people to vote for them to stay as they are.

This was a multiple choice poll though .

[AgnesIO]

This was a multiple choice poll though .

Indeed but the results show a MAXIMUM of 41 people voted to keep them as they are, whereas a MINIMUM of 62 people voted to have them moved/removed.

[Kardan]

All the people that are debating the poll results are just kidding right? It was a multiple choice poll, everyone could vote for any option they thought was right, and it is clear which option won.

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Indeed but the results show a MAXIMUM of 41 people voted to keep them as they are, whereas a MINIMUM of 62 people voted to have them moved/removed.

Also worth noting that some of the 41 people are also some of the 62 people. And I'm afraid the thread poll wasn't 'Keep them' vs 'Have them moved/removed', if it was, you might have a case

And in that case, we best make the government non-conservative, because more people voted non-conservative than conservative.

The government should be formed by an independent candidate in a very small constituency then, considering they will have a large percentage of votes towards them, then votes against them, since the majority of the country didn't vote for them.

[Yawn]

right u all listen here closely.

1) this poll was stupid and pointless in the 1st place

2) keep them as they r wins so shut up. it was multiple choice anyway so have several seats and move on with ur habbox lives. this alleged 62 of u or w/e wanting change couldnt even vote for the same damn option so u all want diff things so lol at u!!!! lol!!! keep it the same wins loL!!!!!!!!!!

[Chippiewill]

This was a multiple choice poll though .

If you ask 100 people to pick fruit and 41 people pick Apple's, you cannot then say that more people selected an Apple than all the other fruits put together. For the final option to work, you would have to have 51 people or more to vote for it. Or in the poll example, you'd need a minimum of 52 people to vote for them to stay as they are.

Almost. Imagine a (non multi choice) poll with the following options:

Apple (Granny Smith) - 25 votes
Apple (Braeburn) - 26 votes
Apple (Gala) - 25 votes
Orange - 30 votes

You would not then declare the orange as the most popular fruit, you'd declare the apple with the Braeburn being the most popular variety.

Now of course our poll was multiple choice so instead we have the following data:

Apple (Granny Smith) - 25 votes
Apple (Braeburn) - 26 votes
Apple (Gala) - 25 votes
Orange - 30 votes

Total Unique voters: 61. Now we can deductively reason that:

Only 30/61 of those liked oranges
AT LEAST 31/61 of those liked Apples. Therefore the Apples won, we don't know which variety but we know they won. This is the situation we're in right now, less than 50% of people actually want them to stay despite the fact that it's the most popular option.

The people of the other side of the fence will settle in reality for ANYTHING that's not orange but did not explicitly express this. So Oranges are not an option to consider.

What we now discover is that of the apples, most people who liked just Orange would like Granny Smiths the most, if they had to eat an Apple. So what we can now do is take all of the people who voted for Orange and NOTHING ELSE and say they would vote for Granny Smith and move their votes to there, this is of course to determine the most popular of the Apples.

As it turns out, 25 of those who voted for Orange voted for nothing else, this leaves the Granny Smith apple at 50 votes, well above all of the others. Therefore it is the most agreeable option.

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I have done this with data that Matt has given me:

Subforum with Postcount Enabled: 32 (31%)
Subforum with Postcount Disabled: 34 (33%)
Move them to spam: 36 (35%)
Ban them altogether: 20 (19%)
Leave them as they are: 41 (40%) (29 voted as sole option)
Total 103

Clearly, Leaving them as they are as an overarching option was not the most popular. We can regard it as never a viable option for those on the other side of the fence and since it lost we can remove it entirely. People who voted for JUST Leave them as they are AND NOTHING ELSE, all 29 of them, get their votes moved to their most favorable alternative (Despite being a generalisation) of Subforum with Postcount Enabled. This leaves us with this picture instead:

Subforum with Postcount Enabled: 61 (59%)
Subforum with Postcount Disabled: 34 (33%)
Move them to spam: 36 (35%)
Ban them altogether: 20 (19%)
Total 103

It is painfully obvious now that Subforum with postcount enabled is the least controversial of ALL of the options.

Whilst this is not incredibly precise, without doing another poll with 'leave them as they are' and 'banned altogether' removed (Which Undertaker would immediately criticise for being too like the EU) this is the best we have.

[Kardan]

Please tell me you're trolling @Chippiewill;

For everyone's benefit, Habbox has always picked the option with the most votes when it is a community poll. And you have to look at the option with the most votes because it was multiple choice. It allowed me to pick my first and 2nd picks So you should go with the one with the most votes

[Chippiewill]

Please tell me you're trolling @Chippiewill;

For everyone's benefit, Habbox has always picked the option with the most votes when it is a community poll. And you have to look at the option with the most votes because it was multiple choice. It allowed me to pick my first and 2nd picks So you should go with the one with the most votes

False.

[Kardan]

False.

Well, your argument is false really. Yes, Orange probably wouldn't be voted as most favourite if you looked into the stats, but if you are asked 'Which out of these options would you like' NOT 'Which fruit is your favourite', then Orange does win.

In this poll we were asked which of these choices would we like to happen, we were not asked 'Would you like them moved or not'.

Plus, you are only considering the multiple choice votes within the last option aren't you? 41 people picked the last and winning option, but you say only 29 of those people solely picked that option?

Then how many people solely picked the other options? I know I picked option 2, so that definitely doesn't have 34 unique votes, and I would be surprised if any of the other options have 29+ unique votes beating the winning option. (And the fact is, we don't even need to look at unique votes, if we did, the poll wouldn't have been set up for multiple choice).

Plus, looking at unique votes is pointless, since everyone who voted multiple options may have had preferences that wouldn't be taken into account. I voted for Option 2 and 5, but would prefer 5 over 2. You can't tell everyone's preferences in the poll.

TL;DR - Poll is done. It's clear who the winner is. People that are debating it really are just wanting their option to win (Although I'm sure you were an option 5 voter, I'll have to read through the thread again )

[Chippiewill]

The poll was conclusive in demonstrating that people didn't want them to stay as is. The middle ground is clearly changing them in some way. How is this not obvious?