# Smiley Voting - Round 1 - Poll 2 **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 26, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-round-1-poll-2/110929 "2002-05-26T17:00:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2002, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-round-1-poll-2/110929/1 "2002-05-26T17:00:03Z")
**Adding a new smiley** We will be adding a new smiley at the SDMB. The smiley will be chosen by popular vote, using the approval method of voting (you can vote for more than one candidate, the candidate with the most votes will win - see [at this page](http://www.sciam.com/askexpert/math/math2.html) a description of approval voting by mathematician Sam Merrill.) **The polling process** We have 50 candidates. vBulletin limits the number of choices in a poll to 10. So the first round of voting will have 5 polls with 10 candidates each. You can vote for more than one candidate in each of the 5 polls in the first round. (Note that if you vote for _every_ candidate, the effect for determining the winner would be the same as if you had not voted at all.) This first round will last 7 days. At end of 7 days, there will be a second-round poll with a) the winner in each of the five polls of the first round (five smilies) b) plus the top four vote-getters besides those five, treating all the polls as one c) and the “no new smilies” choice The second-round 10-choice poll that will also expire in 7 days and be conducted using approval voting. If the winner of the second round is a category with two or more smilies (e.g. dubious has two submissions), there will be one final poll to choose the best smiley for that category, with an expiration date of five days. If there are ties in any of the rounds of voting, the winner will be decided by Arnold Winkelried flipping a swiss coin (to have a double guarantee of swiss neutrality) to determine the winner. **Candidates** [List of candidates](http://home.earthlink.net/~awinkelried/smpoll1/). The table of submissions is divided by columns - the first column will be poll one for the first round, the second column will be poll two for the first round, etc… **Threads of interest** [Asking for smiley submissions in ATMB](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=114395) [Practice poll in ATMB](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=117084) - **We strongly recommend that you experiment with vBulletin’s polling feature here before you start voting on smilies.** [IMHO thread debating the most useful smiley](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=114883) - **This is the place to discuss which smiley is the “best” and/or worthy of your vote.** [IMHO thread discussing the voting method](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=114877) Let the best smiley win! ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-round-1-poll-2/110929/2 "2002-05-27T16:42:22Z")
Vote Swiss goldarnit! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2002, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-round-1-poll-2/110929/3 "2002-05-27T18:51:07Z")
OMG! Moderators/administrators have an option to change the number of votes. I think our swiss smiley will be showing an upsurge in popularity very soon now. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2002, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-round-1-poll-2/110929/4 "2002-05-28T15:04:50Z")
Hell yeah! Nothing like a dirty election, baby! 😃 * * * Don’t blame me, I voted :ch: ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2002, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-round-1-poll-2/110929/5 "2002-05-29T19:36:37Z")
We must have a barfing smiley! ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2002, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-round-1-poll-2/110929/6 "2002-06-01T21:27:19Z")
Swissy, btw, is indicative on neutrality on a given issue. Great concept, so-so execution. (Sorry A.W.) Vote Swiss!: The diplomat’s choice! Vote uhoh!: Then back away slowly!