Lightjolly wrote:

Thats a bit hypocritical  seeing as my last response was 4 hours ago and you had to bring this up again after a perfectly funny comment to shut things down by  Sinnaj, I thought we concluded it was pointless since the devs are going to take action

It's rude not to respond and the reason as to why I responded so much later is I'm busy and don't spend every second on G2G (?) 

& I did say it was pointless but you decided to respond with a comment that continued the previous debate instead of just responding with one that stated this was pointless. Huh, it's almost like you couldn't give it up. 

I wouldn't have responded if you had just read what I said and dropped into instead of trying to win the argument. 

That's a bit hypocritical  seeing as my last response was 4 hours ago and you had to bring this up again after a perfectly funny comment to shut things down by  Sinnaj, I thought we concluded it was pointless since the devs are going to take action

↓Edit: Yup as expected, hypocrite says stop trying to "win the argument" as he tries desperately to win the argument. 

             Sorry everyone and OP this thread turned south, I'll be the grown up out of the two and just drop this

Well the fact the devs said that it shouldn't be like that and changes will come just reinforces what I said, that seeing the numbers does in some shape or form, influences votes. If it wasn't a problem it would stay the same simple

That's not how I saw it, then again votes are marathons not sprints, doesn't matter who starts out faster, the  most consistent one wins

Seeing the numbers do affect influence, though some may stick with their desire many others are just going to see the how the vote is going and think "why to bother voting for this option, it's most definitely not going to win" and they'll choose another option with better chances at winning.

 You're underestimating how much people like to win, even in votes, there's a reason you don't see the numbers until the very end when polls close in all types of voting activities 

@LightJolly I voted early on, and parasite was definitey ahead by quite a large margin. Now they did close the gap and Wraith eventually surpassed Parasite but it most definitely was not neck-and-neck the entire time. 

As for why Arachnid didn’t do well, I was reading the comments and there seems to have been a general consensus that it didn’t fit the theme as well as the other two options. It seems that you may be inflating the influence that seeing the number of votes per catagory has on someones choice. 

Suis3i wrote:

Lightjolly wrote:

Remove the vote counts, I mean what is the point of voting if you see how the results are going, many are just going to vote for who's winning

Although that’s an interesting theory, I’m not sure if you have evidence to back it up. And I’m not sure if that’s entirely true, during the vote to decide the species type, Parasite was far in the lead and then Wraith overtook it and won. 

False, they were neck and neck for a little while, but nothing too far apart then wraith just went crazy ahead for the majority of the vote, and with how rarely comebacks happen,  you think for examples someones going to vote for arachnid when they can actually see how big the gap is and only a few days left?

Frogsquadron wrote:

Lightjolly wrote:

Remove the vote counts, I mean what is the point of voting if you see how the results are going, many are just going to vote for who's winning

Normally, you should only see results when you've voted.

I thought that too until someone pointed out to me you could see how the vote was going before even voting, by looking at the colored bars.

We have decided not to add a silhouette to each voting option, as we think they influence the votes a bit too heavily. Use your imagination!

That's from "Creating the Spy Faction, Part 3; Species Morphology 

I think images found in faction creation voting contests, will only be included when absolutely necessary. As for the last vote, Part 4, they included it due to the fact that they were deciding the Visual Design, in which, the voters would have to know what it looked like in order to vote (as those were all concept arts for the faction). But for future things, like whether or not the species will be Humanoid, Alien, Technological, or Endless, Ancient, Modern I think they'll forgo voting. 

As for creating a poll, go to the top right corner of the "create new thread" page (the one you were on when creating this) and it says "create a poll" just click on that, and gives you options for naming the topics you want people to vote for, whether or not you want more than two, etc. 

Hope this helps !