@curriouslhock,
I hope that the issues with the poll can be resolved.
That was fun and I'd hate to see it as a one shot deal.
As for the carrot and the stick problem I think that can be fixed with careful wording of the question.
An example question:
Remove 1 day from half of the lockees and add 1 day to the other half of the lockees selected at random.
Put the carrot and stick together in the same question so that when you vote on it you don't know which group you will be in.
Whatever you come up with I'll be looking forward to playing with it.
J