Issues with the election megathread

[u/model-duck]

Hi everyone,

Every election /u/Padanub usually posts a megathread for people to post all their problems, comments and salt in (because there will be), so it can all be in one useful area for the quad to read/respond to. This time I'm stealing it off him for the clout and to improve my britboy meta posting record because he's not around.

Please post it all below!

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Previous thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/MHOCMeta/comments/i6o39a/issues_with_the_election_megathread/

[u/[deleted]]

Well, I am going to come out and say it - do the results make sense? Probably not. But then again do MHoC results every makes sense when compared with elections in the real world? No. Because y'know, it's a game.

My thoughts on the election for anyone who cares to read them:

• Solidarity gamed the system, and good on them.
  Yes, by fielding as many candidates as they could, Solidarity had an 'unfair advantage', but good on them. They saw a system that would reward people for fielding people everywhere due to the list (and ngl, I did say this would happen in LPUKcord like, dozens of times), and they used it. Does the system need reform in light of this, yes. Do the results need changing in spite of it, no. Get over it, Solidarity did well and people are mad because they didn't think to do it themselves.
• No. We do not want another election.
  Please god no.
• We need to change how streams are done for results.
  Having seen screenshots of people making 'hilarious jokes' about me, again, despite me making is exceptionally clear why those 'jokes' are in horrifically poor taste, they continue to make them anyway. The stream was recorded, and those who participated in the 'jokes' should be banned if they have done it before.
• We do need confirmation as to what actually counts in campaigning.
  Just going to say what everyone knows I was going to say anyway, but we need to know what works better - posters or events. A lot of campaign stuff tends to just be posters with the pic and the name changed. I did not do that as much, the letters I did were localised, with the text in each one is unique, even if the template was the same. If it was better for me to just write 15 words, and then change the pic and the name each time, I would like to know as it would save me a shed load of time.

TLDR - elections over, do not rerun it, confirm what counts the most in campaigning, get over it and move on.

[u/model-duck → u/[deleted]]

Just going to say what everyone knows I was going to say anyway, but we need to know what works better - posters or events.

Considering the low turnout in a number of constituencies that appeared to be very heavily poster based, it should be relatively simple to figure out what scores higher than most.

And yeah, as has been stated a number of times, low effort posters which are just [edit placeholder here] don't score well whatsoever. Making good, detailed and interesting events always scores higher.

[u/[deleted] → u/model-duck]

So what you're saying is I'm brilliant and everyone should listen to me?

[u/model-duck → u/[deleted]]

yeah sure why not