Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24486291-20140423033457/@comment-5619531-20140423163431

Mystreve wrote:

Simply hide the number of votes (the bars and percentages) from everyone except admins. Don't know if the technical parts are doable per wikia, but that's actually a wonderful idea. It would force people to vote for stories on merit, not because all their buddies voted on one because one person said so.

Totally for this. There is no way to hide the polls from the users, to my knowledge, without using on the voting page. But that will make the polls invisible to all users. You can't really omit users trying to be a part of something that is winning or has a better chance of winning PotM. If Skelly didn't disqualify Pokemon Dark Green from the polls, that would have been a PotM winner for whatever month that it got on the polls.

You can't really change voting. There will always be users thinking they want to be part of a group, rather than voting what they think is a good story to their view. I know it wouldn't make much of a difference, why not just have a saying on the top of the polls page that you don't have to be on a bandwagon. But that wouldn't work, because users will still vote for something that doesn't seem like a regular day basis, like a Pokemon pasta.