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Oct 30, 2012
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Eseex
I think its a great idea, and would be useful and interesting. As has been said the housekeeping would be the only issue, but if someone were to commit to that i think it would work well....
 

Lister

Settler
Apr 3, 2012
992
1
36
Runcorn, Cheshire
Can i suggest a slight tweak to the cracking idea?

While having Top 5 in each category, it'd be great if we had 4 (or 3 dependant on category) price points within each category and a top 5 within that:

Knives
£0-30
1
2
3
4
5

£30-60
1
2
3
4
5

£60-100
1
2
3
4
5

£100+
1
2
3
4
5

as en example, a similar thing has been done on HammockForums for hammocking kit i.e best setup for set pricepoints
 

mountainm

Bushcrafter through and through
Jan 12, 2011
9,990
12
Selby
www.mikemountain.co.uk
Can i suggest a slight tweak to the cracking idea?

While having Top 5 in each category, it'd be great if we had 4 (or 3 dependant on category) price points within each category and a top 5 within that:

Whilst very useful, I'd need other people to help me admin this system considering the amount of categories we may have. I think a top 5 should cover most bases and budgets for now. But if the threads were sticky there's no reason people couldn't add their own "lists".
 

jacko1066

Native
May 22, 2011
1,689
0
march, cambs
I think its a great idea mountainm!!

How about populating the list this way, ask people to submit 1 from each catigory and then just count up the votes for the respective items, eg if the mora robust got the most votes, its in 1st position, if the condor bushlore got the next amount its 2 etc until you reach 5.
You could leave the voting open for say a month and let people add to it when they see it.

It would certainly save a single person from making the decision and opening themselfs up for the barage of abuse that will be oncoming if they pick wrong in someone elses opinion.

After all the numbers dont lie.

Cheers
Steve
 

mountainm

Bushcrafter through and through
Jan 12, 2011
9,990
12
Selby
www.mikemountain.co.uk
I think its a great idea mountainm!!

How about populating the list this way, ask people to submit 1 from each catigory and then just count up the votes for the respective items, eg if the mora robust got the most votes, its in 1st position, if the condor bushlore got the next amount its 2 etc until you reach 5.
You could leave the voting open for say a month and let people add to it when they see it.

It would certainly save a single person from making the decision and opening themselfs up for the barage of abuse that will be oncoming if they pick wrong in someone elses opinion.

After all the numbers dont lie.

Cheers
Steve

Good plan - I don't think things need to even been in any order. Just a top 5 with reasons why things make the cut, along with a price and a date added.
 

Shewie

Mod
Mod
Dec 15, 2005
24,259
24
48
Yorkshire
The problem I see is that we'd have to set up the voting system as a poll, each poll would need specific choices for the votes. The make those final choices you'd have to open it up to every possible suggestion to start with and then try to narrow it down somehow, without poll stats to help you.

If the polls were left to run continuously they'd soon fade out and get irregular bumps now and then. They'd probably end up getting locked or removed eventually. So to keep up to date you'd have to run more polls and that's where it starts to get tricky I should think.

There's plenty of us who'd participate in voting but the variation of answers are going to be vast, some poor beggar has to try and work all that out. You could try and do a category each month and try to get it wrapped up before starting the next one, again it could be a headache but after 12 months you'd have some useful information compiled

Another thing I'm not sure about is keeping it all in one thread, especially with the polls. I'm not sure if you can create a new poll in an existing thread or not, never tried it.
 

mountainm

Bushcrafter through and through
Jan 12, 2011
9,990
12
Selby
www.mikemountain.co.uk
The problem I see is that we'd have to set up the voting system as a poll, each poll would need specific choices for the votes. The make those final choices you'd have to open it up to every possible suggestion to start with and then try to narrow it down somehow, without poll stats to help you.

If the polls were left to run continuously they'd soon fade out and get irregular bumps now and then. They'd probably end up getting locked or removed eventually. So to keep up to date you'd have to run more polls and that's where it starts to get tricky I should think.

There's plenty of us who'd participate in voting but the variation of answers are going to be vast, some poor beggar has to try and work all that out. You could try and do a category each month and try to get it wrapped up before starting the next one, again it could be a headache but after 12 months you'd have some useful information compiled

Another thing I'm not sure about is keeping it all in one thread, especially with the polls. I'm not sure if you can create a new poll in an existing thread or not, never tried it.

I could externalise the voting to a google form, one for each category where the user submits an opinion on a single category and then I can provide a link to the results. Re-evaluating every X months for new data. Each category would require it's own thread.
 

Shewie

Mod
Mod
Dec 15, 2005
24,259
24
48
Yorkshire
I could externalise the voting to a google form, one for each category where the user submits an opinion on a single category and then I can provide a link to the results. Re-evaluating every X months for new data. Each category would require it's own thread.


That should work, would everybody be able to edit it and add their own favourite kit?
 

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