Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-4848837-20140901041132/@comment-4848837-20140901175005

Blaziken rjcf wrote: 1 - I had already done the highlight thing.

My apologies, I'd completely forgotten about that one.

2 - The second part of your suggestion has two parts. One is when to end suggestions, and the other is the overly complicated (and random; might as well flip a coin) tie-breaker. The time to end suggestions should be fluid, depending on user activity throughout the wiki, rather than just in the suggestions thread. As for the tie-breaker, like I said, it's random. There's about a 50/50 chance that the tied suggestion will be approved. This method makes no sense, because suggestions should be, first and foremost, about what's best for the wiki, and what users want; not the flip of a coin.

They're definitely one suggestion put together in one part for a reason; you can't reach the tiebreaker without setting when time is up. I don't see a better suggestion coming for how to deal with ties; with a fairly random number of users active at any one time, the only other way to mend this properly is to have one user (preferably one who's been around for awhile) to sit out every vote so in the event of a tie, they can break it.

EDIT: There's also the matter that having a majority vote for one option is meaningless if the number of votes by which they win is small (1 or 2). It means that the wiki is more or less divided.

I don't quite understand this part, could you elaborate or rephrase it?