2018 PnW Awards Announcement
First off, I’ll be hosting the awards again this year. It’ll be a good occasion as usual. However I’m trying to spice it up this year. I’m trying to add new categories and make it more of a presentation this year so here we go for ideas:
1. Instead of public voting, we do secret ones that are counted by multiple people, so there’s no way of rigging the vote.
2. Instead of the usual public view of awards, we hold a radio show(Kev and Charlie will hopefully help out), and the show
It's not "dumb". The only way to "rig" a vote is to tamper with the voting results themselves, and secrecy is a necessary precondition for that to happen. Your proposed solution to a non-problem happens to be the first step towards actually rigging the vote. Voting - regardless of the motivation - is, by definition, outside the scope of "rigging".
If your mechanism for publicizing the vote results is to change the settings of a forum poll from secret to public, that's probably fine (I'm
