CANDY MEGAPOLL VOLCANO LAIR OF DOOM! aka the Mission Command thread

Rat Diva · #1 27th August 2016, 11:26 AM

@Fenris can you make this a sticky? With all this sugar around that ought to be easy

Instead of having administrative type stuff spread out over a bunch of threads, I'd rather just have one central location for all that. That will leave more room for petty bickering in the nomination and individual poll threads, because that's what megapolls are all about

NOMINATION THREAD HERE

Nominations will be accepted through 7:59 pm EDT on 9-1-16 (Thursday) and I will start to post the Round One polls Thursday night. I have a big deadline coming up at work for Wednesday, plus this will give anyone who didn't see the start of the poll plenty of time to get their suggestions in. I'm not as nice as Idle Thoughts so I won't be adding any late entries once the first round polls are posted.

I haven't decided yet how long each individual round will last, so let me know what you think.

Borborygmi · #2 27th August 2016, 11:31 AM

You suck, Rat Diva!

Kat · #3 27th August 2016, 11:32 AM

You monster!

Rat Diva · #4 27th August 2016, 11:40 AM

Ahhh, I can feel the love already

The Futility of Nihilism · #5 27th August 2016, 12:32 PM

This is a stupid idea for a megapoll filled with stupid entries run by a stupid poster because stupid.

Also, I can't think of anything.

*Fenris* · #6 27th August 2016, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Rat Diva

@Fenris can you make this a sticky? With all this sugar around that ought to be easy

Consider it stuck.

*Fenris* · #7 27th August 2016, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Rat Diva

I haven't decided yet how long each individual round will last, so let me know what you think.

Maybe 3 days per round until the semi-finals or so and then longer?

Bitterness and acrimony need time to marinate.

NAF1138 · #8 27th August 2016, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Fenris

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Originally Posted by Rat Diva

I haven't decided yet how long each individual round will last, so let me know what you think.

Maybe 3 days per round until the semi-finals or so and then longer?

Bitterness and acrimony need time to marinate.

Yeah. I would also like a mechanism wherein we have the nomination posted about 24 hours before the voting opens so there is the potential to sway votes. But that may be too complicated.

Rat Diva · #9 27th August 2016, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by NAF1138

Yeah. I would also like a mechanism wherein we have the nomination posted about 24 hours before the voting opens so there is the potential to sway votes. But that may be too complicated.

More work than I feel like doing

I'll go to 4 days per round, and if people want to campaign for a favorite and hold their votes until the last possible second they can. I'm going to do timed polls, and any that end in a tie when time expires will be decided by random.org so vote-swaying skillz could be veeeery important indeed...

MWAHAHHAHAAHAAHAAHAAAA!

*Pure* · #10 27th August 2016, 04:38 PM

I can be bought. Just sayin'

Rat Diva · #11 27th August 2016, 04:49 PM

Fenris sez that if you change your mind, he will change your vote if you explicitly ask him in the thread, not by PM.

Rat Diva · #12 27th August 2016, 04:54 PM

Just to practice using the poll system, and to prime the hate-pump, I've decided to start off with a special bonus poll for Peep lovers.

NAF1138 · #13 27th August 2016, 04:55 PM

Rat Diva you have broken my heart by disallowing rice crispy treats and candy coated popcorn. (caramel corn, crackerjacks, the screaming yellow zonkers linked in the other thread etc)

I just thought you should know.

Kat · #14 27th August 2016, 04:58 PM

Well, she's apparently disallowed Chiclets, too. Even though they are candy, and NOT GUM!

NAF1138 · #15 27th August 2016, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Kat

Well, she's apparently disallowed Chiclets, too. Even though they are candy, and NOT GUM!

MONSTER!

Pere · #16 27th August 2016, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Kat

Well, she's apparently disallowed Chiclets, too. Even though they are candy, and NOT GUM!

You swallow your chiclets?

Kat · #17 27th August 2016, 08:05 PM

Yes. Yes, I do. Wanna make somethin' of it.

Kat · #18 27th August 2016, 08:06 PM

This thread should be called Candyland.

Jaglavak · #19 27th August 2016, 08:59 PM

Swallowing gum is supposed to be bad for you. One day you sneeze and blow a bubble the size of Baltimore.

Kat · #20 27th August 2016, 09:17 PM

You can't blow bubbles with Chiclets.

Jaglavak · #21 27th August 2016, 09:44 PM

Oh.

Rat Diva · #22 28th August 2016, 03:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Jaglavak

Swallowing gum is supposed to be bad for you. One day you fart and blow a bubble the size of Baltimore.

FTFY

Kat · #23 28th August 2016, 07:32 AM

You still can't blow bubbles with Chiclets.

Rat Diva · #24 28th August 2016, 08:50 AM

You can if you chew up a whole box at once (or a whole packet of the Chiclet minis) and you're careful not to blow too hard.

Kat · #25 28th August 2016, 08:57 AM

Pics or it didn't happen!

Borborygmi · #26 29th August 2016, 06:05 AM

Doubtful that the "mention" tags will find @Dirx, wherever he may be, but giving it a try here. As a past megapoll participant and a self-declared sugar fiend it would be cool to lure him back for this.

Inner Stickler · #27 29th August 2016, 07:03 AM

ugh fenris likes whoppers

yet more evidence in the case that he is terrible

*Fenris* · #28 29th August 2016, 07:39 AM

**FRESH** Whoppers. Where the malted milk stuff in the middle has zero moisture or chew to it. Most Whoppers aren't really fresh and the middle is kind of chewey. It shouldn't be. It should just dissolves into malty-goodness in your mouth. If you've never had really fresh ones, you don't know what you're missing.

Inner Stickler · #29 29th August 2016, 08:26 AM

hurk

Jaglavak · #30 29th August 2016, 08:47 AM

Malted milk balls are false advertising. They look like nummy little bits of chocolate, but they taste like sahara dust and industrial glue. Nope nope nope.

*Fenris* · #31 29th August 2016, 08:52 AM

Doubt you the power of MALT? Die, scum.

Rat Diva · #32 29th August 2016, 09:02 AM

I know, right? Buncha haters. I ought to disqualify their nominations as stupid food eaten by stupid people who eat stupid food for breakfast cause they're stupid...

Inner Stickler · #33 29th August 2016, 09:56 AM

What is this, a whoppers cartel?

Rat Diva · #34 29th August 2016, 10:34 AM

He knows! Run for it!

joyfool · #35 29th August 2016, 10:55 AM

< pssst >

Hey, lady! Have I got a whopper for you!

JoanieBaloney · #36 29th August 2016, 12:15 PM

Sweet!

Jaglavak · #37 29th August 2016, 05:51 PM

Yeah, last time I tried that line I got slapped into next week.

BJMoose · #38 30th August 2016, 05:35 AM

Remind me to use that line next time I want to skip a week.

Pere · #39 30th August 2016, 09:34 AM

Hey Ratty, a thought for you.

With the length of your nominations list, you're looking at nine rounds of regular single-elimination, and well over a hundred matches just to clear the first round. You might want to do something different than the usual one-on-ones to get it underway. You could just do three-way matches, with just one winner advancing. Or, you could do a set of multiple-choice qualifying groups, where people can vote at once for everything they like on the list, and the top 30-40% of each group goes into the single-elim bracket (to be matched against stuff from the other qualifying groups). The advantage, perhaps, to the latter is that if there are two really well-liked things in the same starting group, they can both move up.

Anyway, your game, your call.

NAF1138 · #40 30th August 2016, 10:06 AM

You could use that last method to create seeds as well. Make it a fairer bracket.

Rat Diva · #41 30th August 2016, 10:41 AM

Good thought, Pere, and I might have designed the poll that way from the start if I'd known how zarking huge the list was going to end up

Pogo · #42 30th August 2016, 07:42 PM

I just hope you don't do all of a round at the same time. I had trouble keeping up last time and when I logged in the first few days, I had pages of new threads/posts to read.

The Futility of Nihilism · #43 31st August 2016, 03:20 AM

I agree with Pogo. Break up at least the first round over several days. It gives us more of a chance to feud over petty differences that way.

Rat Diva · #44 31st August 2016, 04:59 AM

Then what I'll do is, I'll split Round 1 into 4 groups of 30-ish polls each and release one batch a day. That'll make for sustained vitriol and spite that lasts like an Everlasting Gobstopper.

That'll make it easier for me to keep track of the winners a bit at a time instead of weeding through umpty-zillion polls at once.

Everybody wins that way!

Jaglavak · #45 31st August 2016, 08:58 AM

That ought to hold us until... :: clickety click click :: ...mid November. Of 2018.

Rat Diva · #46 31st August 2016, 10:35 AM

Fenris promised he wouldn't box me until the poll was over, so it's in my best interest to stretch things out as long as possible.

*Fenris* · #47 31st August 2016, 10:39 AM

Wait....I don't recall that promise. I thought I just promised not to box you for poll-related reasons (unless Whoppers don't make it to the second or third round in which case, all bets are off.*)

*

Rat Diva · #48 1st September 2016, 02:30 PM

It doesn't seem that there are going to be any 11th-hour entries, so I'm going to start posting the round 1 polls right... about... wait for it... NOW!

Rat Diva · #49 1st September 2016, 03:25 PM

Ok, first batch of Round 1 polls are posted. Watch tomorrow for the second batch, same bat time, same bat channel.

And if anyone's wondering about the random text, I thought it would be a fitting tribute to the late great Gene Wilder by cramming in as many Willy Wonka references as possible

Kat · #50 1st September 2016, 07:46 PM

I'm leaving tomorrow morning for my annual family Labor Day Weekend gathering (and for all you people who voted against it in the food poll, I will not think of you as I eat my corn-on-the-cob) and won't be back until sometime Monday evening. I may or may not have time to check in on my tablet.

I'm probably not the only one doing Labor Day Weekend stuff, though. Is it possible to keep the rest of the polls open a little extra time?