Selecting components for a new build: could we have a web-based voting system?

GreenGhost

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Here's the idea:

1. Anandtech creates web pages that list the components for a particular desktop. There should be one page for each power/price category: Dirty Cheap, Web Surfing and Email, General Home, Ocasional Gamer, Avid Gamer, Clueless Rich Guy, Servers, etc... These pages would show the currently selected components, and allow for voting on each one.

2. (Qualified?) Members would nominate better components, considering cost/benefits for that particular computer type (Dirty Cheap: price always wins; Avid Gamer: obsolete video card is out). These nominations would be the alternatives of a general poll, which should be limit to 4 or 5 alternatives for each component. Duplication has to be avoided. Maybe getting the entries from a master list of components, updated by volunteers. If this list could have the current market price, even better.

3. A voting period begins (maybe 2-3 days, maybe variable if votes are scarce/abundant for a component). Members can vote for each component independently. After that, the components are chosen and a new cycle of nominations/voting begins. There should be a minimum no. of votes to override a selection.

When new products appear, they will replace the obsolescent ones. The same with price fluctuations: when a component becomes affordable, it will get more votes.

If too many alternatives are proposed for each component, it'd be hard to get a consensus. That's why there should be a two-stage voting system. Maybe a list of nominees; the new component is added to the selection poll only after a certain number of votes.

Idiotic voting and fanboyism will occur, and some ppl will disregard the stated purpose of that system and still suggest expensive or inadequate components.

At the beginning, nomination of components could be done by experienced Anadtechers. Members would vote for the preselected components considering preferences and cost/benefits for that day.
 

SoundTheSurrender

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Sounds good but would never be put through and it would not stop people doing the LOL HELP ME WITH MY CORNROW SET UP LOL. WHAT PARTS SHOULD I GET LOL.
 

GreenGhost

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Originally posted by: djmihow
Sounds good but would never be put through and it would not stop people doing the LOL HELP ME WITH MY CORNROW SET UP LOL. WHAT PARTS SHOULD I GET LOL.

True. Just look at the top threads right now. Besides the fact that ppl like to tell how they voted, some good comments can steer the choices in the right direction.