Recently, Koopa con Carne was asking me about my Popular Opinions thread, and that got me thinking of posting one of my existing polls on Reddit to see how it fared. Specifically, it's on the r/Mario subreddit because that's where the Mario fans generally are. I wanted to post about Mario vs. Luigi, but there was already a recent poll so it would not be useful to post that. Instead, I posted about "What is the opinion on the traditional plot of Bowser kidnapping Peach?"
Here's the poll distribution on Super Mario Boards:
But this is what it looks like on Reddit (link). Note the reduced amount of options: Reddit only allows for a maximum of six options, but for this poll in particular, it worked out in its favour because the previous iteration clearly had one too many options.
With more votes, the popular opinion clearly has a different distribution, although some things remain the same, like how a minority is OK with the idea of Peach being kidnapped but not by Bowser. In any case, despite the poll lasting for fewer days (2 days only), it accrued a lot of votes, and the majority of them are on the first day, meaning that 2 days is a good benchmark for each of these polls.
It certainly sounds like an interesting topic to analyse for the 'Shroom if there are enough polls created, although maybe not because it would step on the toes of the actual Poll Committee's analyses.
Thank you for reading.
Here's the poll distribution on Super Mario Boards:
But this is what it looks like on Reddit (link). Note the reduced amount of options: Reddit only allows for a maximum of six options, but for this poll in particular, it worked out in its favour because the previous iteration clearly had one too many options.
With more votes, the popular opinion clearly has a different distribution, although some things remain the same, like how a minority is OK with the idea of Peach being kidnapped but not by Bowser. In any case, despite the poll lasting for fewer days (2 days only), it accrued a lot of votes, and the majority of them are on the first day, meaning that 2 days is a good benchmark for each of these polls.
It certainly sounds like an interesting topic to analyse for the 'Shroom if there are enough polls created, although maybe not because it would step on the toes of the actual Poll Committee's analyses.
Thank you for reading.
Even more so, I have already found a place on the wiki so in that aspect, I was already starting to get busy. For one, around that time I was already busy getting Dr. Mario World's coverage on the wiki, and due to how it was basically me covering some stuff that not many users would cover, the poll thread is inevitably going to get left behind.
An unfortunate grievance I have had, which is of course not the fault of the folks here, is how little responses it generally garnered and how it does not reflect the actual popular opinion. For example, the Mario vs Sonic rivalry opinion: the popular opinion here is how OK everyone generally is that they are buddies now, but the same poll I used for the Wiki polled differently, where the popular opinion is the preference for competitiveness between the two.
I am not sure I would return, but perhaps if the ability to change polls is more streamlined (as opposed to requiring instructing a moderator), it's worth a shot.
Thank you for reading.