@bertoletdown said:

Not sure what your specific quarrels are, but I think the tool is fascinating.

Sure, it's not statistically pure. It doesn't pretend to be. It's social, and it's fun, and it's certainly "directionally correct." Moreover, Clark and Elise and Ravi at Ranker are giving us a lot of TLC, and soon thanks to them we're gonna start to share some cross-tabs and analytics that I think you'll find fascinating, starting with what the first poll revealed. [HINT: There's no such thing as objectivity in a "best jams of summer" exercise.]

There's potential to actually learn something about our community through this feature, which I think is gold. Stay tuned.

I'm happy Ranker is here. I'd like to think that my feeble forum thread on polling expedited its appearance, but surely .net has been thinking about it for a while. I look forward to the hinted developments. I shouldn't have written that it doesn't work well; rather that it could work better. And I trust it will, thanks again to the team.

FWIW, I wonder what it would be like for users to submit their own top ten lists and let a simple program sort it out with weights, like college football polls, or something less corrupt. If, for example, I have Secret Smile at my number two, it seems counter-intuitive to simply up-vote it, whilst down-voting whatever's ahead of it, and then hoping for the best. Perhaps the aforementioned analytics will proove to be a Strange Design-loving "deaf noob" in this regard?

Finally, yes, best jam exercises lack objectivity, but a favorite jam, ballad, effect, tour, etc. would suffice. Staying tuned; I like where .net has gone and continues to go, thanks.