What I'm going to do about the 500+ proposed ideas
Added 2017-11-14 05:28:46 +0000 UTCSo the idea proposal and voting through reddit worked... sort of.
Interestingly enough, most people just didn't vote. There were lots of ideas though. But without voting it was hard to tell which ones were popular or not. With only a few votes between them it could just be noise.
So i have an idea to resolve this to a mutually beneficial solution: I'm going to go through all 500+ ideas and condense them down into a few dozen. I'll eliminated ones that are too difficult, blatantly illegal, or that i simply don't like (for example i'll never make bombs or drugs with abuse potential even if they're totally legal).
Once i have a list of a few dozen ideas i like i'll then write up proposals for them and post them here for you, my patrons, to vote on.
You are essentially my funding committee. Your patronage is what makes these videos possible so I think it's only fitting you get the final say as to which projects are performed.
Sound like a good idea to you?
(And on a different note, I'm thinking of making a follow-up video informing the rest of my subs about the decision process, do you think that would be a good idea or would it seem like i'm talking too much and I should just get on with it?)
Comments
This all sounds great. As to the update video, I'd say you probably don't need to. On the other hand, there's the whole YouTube favoring frequent uploaders thing. Doing update/short videos between your usual content might also help viewers feel more involved (and possibly lead to more patronage), so I don't think it'd be a bad thing. There are creators whose videos I sometimes skip now because they've gone too far towards the quantity end of things, but you're no where close imo.
2017-11-16 20:50:53 +0000 UTCPatreon has native poll functionality that lets you pick multiple options. They introduced it earlier this year.
Mark Rose
2017-11-15 19:09:23 +0000 UTCoh absolutely, i'm going to find some polling system where you pick more than one. Like maybe "pick up to 75%" of the available options. I then actually eliminate the bottom 50% or so and do all the ones that float to the top. So chances are, you'll be satisfied with a good number of what I do even if your top pick might have ended up in the bottom.
NurdRage
2017-11-15 18:49:21 +0000 UTCI would love it if we could have something more sophisticated than just a "pick one" voting method. Can we do instant-runoff, or a "pick three you like" or something like that? Maybe use Google Sheets for it?
jason black
2017-11-15 18:05:43 +0000 UTC
