People were arguing about whether the votes would be counted. I think your “simple instructions” need to be simplified. There are a lot of simple minded people here. The caucus results are clear evidence of that fact.
My rules are there because people love to push the limits.
If I don’t put the rules there they would say, “But you never told us we can’t do that.”
I have to have some rigid rules or the thread would be unmanageable.
Not only that, I need to be able to count between 300 and 400 votes in a timely fashion.
If I let folks go wild, it would take me hours to do.
As it is, I can now tabulate in about ten minutes.
My tabulation creates four graphs, and those are almost automatic.
Then I copy them and turn them into photo.png files.
I post them to my thread and I’m good to go.
Took me about 20 minutes tonight.
That’s not too bad.
If I didn’t have the rules, it would take me four times as long, or longer.