Question: So, just a random question - am I the only one who noticed that almost no one was voting for the Inuit until the Navajo joined the poll, and now the two of the them have the most votes?
It's true, the Navajo and Inuit are doing awesome in the current poll, and I love it! The Inuit have been on the poll for a while, but they haven't managed to triumph over the Apu, Alihah, K'uh and Atua in the past four rounds of voting. And you're right, they weren't even getting very many votes compared to the frontrunners, until they burst onto the scene with their current commanding showing!
I'm not sure it's actually the Navajo being added to the poll that is making the Inuit also popular; that doesn't really make much sense. It's probably just the usual way ongoing polls work; the Inuit, having been around for a while, finally hit the point where they were the most popular option after the other ones had been voted in and removed from the poll. The Navajo are a happy surprise, but it's not that strange that they're popular - Scion's got a big fat blind spot in the lack of North American pantheons, and they're one of the most recognizable to most players.
I'm pretty much as excited as can be about the two of them competing for the next pantheon. No matter which one wins, we'll get some North American awesomeness, which is totally badass!
But will it be the American Southwest or the far northern reaches of Canada? Go vote! I am way too excited to find out!
Any blog about the subject will also cause a huge surge of votes for that topic. And the voting goes on long enough that someone can intentionally send in questions about the subject, and they will probably be answered before the voting ends.
ReplyDeleteI know because I do that.
Should start doing that. *is one of the folks voting for the tibetans...*
DeleteThat's probably the best solution. If everyone is doing it then it tends to reduce the effect of just one or two people doing it. And we learn a lot more about the subjects being voted on.
DeleteI think that happens for all the polls - had a poll about Avatars/Ultimates, voting for the surged, had a poll about Dierdre/Seamus, voting for them surged. It's a neat effect!
DeleteThis gives me the idea: Maybe Anne could give us a short summary of each pantheon on the voting block (things like gods to look up, a unique central theme, some crazy anecdote from a myth) every time the voting round starts again. Nothing big, a few lines each maybe, just so we know what we're voting on. I don't think it would be asking to much, especially because once it's done you just have to present the new ones added to the block instead of all seven.
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I think that's actually a pretty great idea. :) We already do something similar for the new projects and fiction polls, so this would give people an idea what they were voting for. Also, now that we've gotten past the most popularly recognizable options (Apu and Anunna and so on), it would help those folks that want to see cool new gods but don't know a lot about the ones on the poll.
DeleteTotally second this! I'm so confused over whom to vote for I still haven't cast it!
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