As said before, I've no idea how to run a poll so maybe I'll get the gist of it as I go along or someone else can step in later, or it'll be a mocky poll, who knows, let's save that for another day!
A poll to determine SCFZ's favourite horror films
The rules:
-- Ballots can include up to 100 films
-- You can freely decide what qualifies as "horror"
-- Partly-ranked ballots make for better polls. If you want to partly rank your ballot (strongly encouraged!), divide it into 'tiers' or 'blocks' of equal size. You can use two, three, four or five (recommended!) tiers. So if you post a ballot of 60 films, you could divide it into five tiers, 12/12/12/12/12 films each, four tiers, 15/15/15/15 films each, or three tiers, 20/20/20, or two tiers, 30/30, or leave it unranked.
-- Scoring system is the same as for earlier genre polls, each ballot awards an average of 3 points per film, for 5-tier ballots 5/4/3/2/1, for 4-tier ballots the scoring is 5/3.5/2.5/1, for three-tier ballots 5/3/1, for two-tier ballots 4/2, for one-tier, 3 points to everything.
-- There's no expectation that many people will post a 100-film ballot, so don't feel obligated to vote for films you don't like just to make your ballot longer. But to ensure that short ballots don't unduly influence the results, ballots with fewer than 30 films in total will award fewer points per film than longer ballots.
Deadline: not sure yet, when everyone who wants to participate has had a chance
If you'd like to save me time, it is most helpful if films are listed in exactly this format:
Title (Director's full name, year)
i.e. like this:
Ghostwatch (Lesley Manning, 1992)
This is extremely helpful to me, so I'd be grateful if people can format their ballots as above. And for world film, please use a film's title most commonly used in English discussion, even if that is not the film's original title.
