We've got a lot of intelligent people in this community, and a lot of people with common sense. I'm going to ask you guys something to help us improve this process in the future..
If YOU had 5 different styles of dragon penis candles all scented the same way, and you asked someone their order of preference if they had to choose 4. Would it make sense if the person choose the same one four times, and would you consider the question answered adequately?
To be honest I did this
I was pretty hung over, but the form let me do it so ehhh.
I have a preference for an otter over all other caps, then I have no preference between the others (as in, I would enjoy them all equally). What would have been the best way to fill that out? One otter and 3 wild cards? Three otters and one wild card? One otter, one wild card, then randomly two other sculpts?
I work full time programming tech for others to use and a main pillar is defined with this phrase; "if something is easy to use incorrectly, it's been build badly".
To be picky, the default layout when you open a page has all 4 set to DWI Jack which is exactly the input that you're complaining about. It would be a simple fix to at least have a different sculpt on each one by default. Some form validation would also stop this completely. I believe better terminology would have been to ask people to "rank" them instead of selecting preferences. Drag and drop would work (
https://jqueryui.com/sortable/), Ctrl Alt have this on their cart page. If you had to work with the current constraints you could inverse the paradigm and have each sculpt listed with a dropdown/radio buttons/slider for rank next to it. e.g.
DWI Jack : [#2]
Lion Keyng : [N/A]
Switch Doctor : [#3]
Otterophile : [#1]
Skulthulu : [N/A]
WILD CARD : [#4]
Anyway, that's my viewpoint on it. Hopefully it comes across as constructive