Here are the results of the blog poll: “Which are your favorite progressive Church of Christ blogs? (Select up to 5)”
After you take out the “Null” votes (cast to trigger a display of the results), about 500 votes were cast. However, several people voted for the same person more than once, which is against the rules. In fact, one person voted for the same person 15 times! (You didn’t think I’d catch you?) So I had to scrub the data by removing duplicates.
I’ve omitted results below 8%. In addition to the blogs shown above, there about 58 blogs that received at least one vote.
Now, a few notes on interpreting these results —
1. The numbers don’t reflect the total readership of the blogs. Edward Fudge and Al Maxey have much larger readerships than I do. Matt Dabbs’ readership is very close to the size of mine.
Rather, the poll shows the blogs most popular among readers of OneInJesus, which is hardly the entirety of the Internet audience. (Although it’s the very best part of that audience.)
What this really shows about Edward Fudge, for example, is that OneInJesus reaches a largely different audience from that reached by his excellent work — which is very surprising to me. I’m sure the same is true for several of the blogs listed.
2. Remember that readers were invited to vote up to 5 times. Therefore, I’ve multiplied the actual percentages by 5. If everyone votes 5 times, the highest possible score for one blog is 20%. And so you’d multiply by 5 to get 100% to figure what percentage of the voters picked that blog.
That means about half those taking the survey didn’t rank OneInJesus as one of the top 5 favorite blogs. That’s kind of humbling, you know.
But the point of the poll wasn’t to build my ego (which is in no need of building up) but to get recommendations for new blogs to read. And it works.
So now you have some surely excellent suggestions for additional reading material — after you’ve read OneInJesus. In fact, there are several blogs on the list that I’m not familiar with and am excited to get to explore.
I voted a couple of times.. that's because of ineptitude.. not a desire to stack the polls!
If I apply the old hermeneutic to your list of rules in the poll I don't see anything that would keep someone from voting MORE than twice for the same blog. You did say to keep it to five blogs but refer back to the rule that says don't vote twice means I could vote an unlimited amount of times for those 5 blogs just as long as I don't vote only twice. But all this hinges on readers of this blog still using CENI…
An no, it wasn't me!
I voted twice, each time for your blog, and each time after I voted it changed immediately to results. I could vote only once each time.
Royce,I wondered who was stacking the poll for me. It just killed me to have to delete all those extra votes.
Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt ….How easily you change agents forget the old paths! CENI teaches us that silences are prohibitions. It’s just like a digressive to take a silence and turn it into a permission — and then call that CENI! I’m confident that not a single old-paths believer voted twice (or more than twice) for the same blog. It was just those corrupted by the bane of Postmodernism who voted for one blog multiple times.All,I don’t know whether the software would let me figure out who voted for the same person more than once, and I don’t intend to find out. I figure most multiple votes resulted from the confusing interface. I’ll not be using that particular polling software again — but it was the only package I could find that would allow 5 votes and that would handle so many choices.
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