I think its a great idea, and would be useful and interesting. As has been said the housekeeping would be the only issue, but if someone were to commit to that i think it would work well....
Can i suggest a slight tweak to the cracking idea?
While having Top 5 in each category, it'd be great if we had 4 (or 3 dependant on category) price points within each category and a top 5 within that:
I think its a great idea mountainm!!
How about populating the list this way, ask people to submit 1 from each catigory and then just count up the votes for the respective items, eg if the mora robust got the most votes, its in 1st position, if the condor bushlore got the next amount its 2 etc until you reach 5.
You could leave the voting open for say a month and let people add to it when they see it.
It would certainly save a single person from making the decision and opening themselfs up for the barage of abuse that will be oncoming if they pick wrong in someone elses opinion.
After all the numbers dont lie.
Cheers
Steve
The problem I see is that we'd have to set up the voting system as a poll, each poll would need specific choices for the votes. The make those final choices you'd have to open it up to every possible suggestion to start with and then try to narrow it down somehow, without poll stats to help you.
If the polls were left to run continuously they'd soon fade out and get irregular bumps now and then. They'd probably end up getting locked or removed eventually. So to keep up to date you'd have to run more polls and that's where it starts to get tricky I should think.
There's plenty of us who'd participate in voting but the variation of answers are going to be vast, some poor beggar has to try and work all that out. You could try and do a category each month and try to get it wrapped up before starting the next one, again it could be a headache but after 12 months you'd have some useful information compiled
Another thing I'm not sure about is keeping it all in one thread, especially with the polls. I'm not sure if you can create a new poll in an existing thread or not, never tried it.
I could externalise the voting to a google form, one for each category where the user submits an opinion on a single category and then I can provide a link to the results. Re-evaluating every X months for new data. Each category would require it's own thread.
That should work, would everybody be able to edit it and add their own favourite kit?