Design Challenges Update - We Want Your Feedback

After watching for a few weeks I’m fairly convinced the main issue with voting is the average city is only being seen twice.  Bad luck is once, good luck is three times, unusually good luck for more.  There’s a reason most good submissions are receiving 3.5 stars and I think this is it.

I suspect there’s two root causes: Monday is a slow day so fewer log in then anyway, and poor rewards for voting.  Put together there’s lots of mayors with minimalist submissions, few mayors voting.  These problems feed back on each other: why bother with a good submission if there’s nothing for it, and why bother voting if all we’re doing is judging basic submissions for peanuts.

Voting needs at least one significant change to start.  Some ideas:

• Last for more than 24 hours, especially given how lame Mondays are.
• Receive better compensation.  For example the first vote round offered could provide blueprints, encouraging everyone to vote at least one round.
• An overhaul to who gets voted on, for example the more a mayor votes on others the more votes they’d be weighted to receive.
• More than one overall round of voting so above average and exceptional entries get more views and opportunity to shine.  For example Monday is the same, then Tuesday voting between cities only with 3 stars or more with no loss of points.