Bias voting?

[Aether]

I think that the voting is biased. To believe otherwise seems...unreal. Rarely do I see a signature in SOTW or KOTH that I actually thought should have won, but it sure got a lot of votes.



And I often see "alrights", "good", and "novice" tags that are better than or equal to those "great" tags and just flat out lose for some reason. What makes a great tag to you other than your own opinion? That was biased thinking right there, and no one was voting on anything. Yes, it's easy to call someone a crier or claim that they have suspicious feelings, but what do you expect?



I don't think this will solve anything at all. Even if it concluded that a majority of users here believed that the voting was biased, wouldn't it be easier to simply say that majority of them are being biased on the subject as a whole?Would anything be done at all?

Obviously people's opinion will affect their descision. You don't intend to vote purely on he/she who applied the rule of thirds the best and making sure that any sort of dividing of the signature is done exactly in the golden section. Oh and lets not forget about lines and flow and lighting.

Sure these things are important but even if someone manages to stick to all the "rules" it's no guarantee for an eyepleasing tag. If someone gets lots of votes week afther week then perhaps people just like the style that person uses and think it's superior to other entries. People will always disagree but that's how democracy works.

Also if people really are just voting for people they like then I highly doubt hiding names will work. As mentioned above some people here have very recognisable styles.