ChimeraBunny
CREATOR
7 months ago
Project Update: No more polls! - Sorry folks!
Hello, Celine.
From now on, we will not be doing polls again. Polls are a fun thing we like doing for the community, but they were unnecessary to begin with. We may post designs to gauge interest but no formal polls will be done.
We've had people express discontentment before with designs and such, and have had no problems with it. We haven't had multiple people: comment and downvote on other's comments/ unrelated campaign updates, try to start arguments with us and other backers, and act in bad faith- until now, so we will not be doing them anymore. The purpose of them was a fun thing to foster community, and it has not achieved that purpose.
The poll was live for all daylight hours of the day and ended at 11:59pm EST, and regardless of if you felt the poll was short we already had a pretty good idea the varsity would win due to the 70+ comments of people excited for it. It was in the lead for the entire duration of the poll, and running during night time hours would not have changed the outcome. I know there are people that preferred the other items, but if a chunk of backers are not going to be ok with losing a poll; we cannot continue doing them.
As a reminder, us and any other creators on backerkit have the right to refuse you service. If you have a concern, complaint, or don't like a design that is fine to express. We've had that before with no issues, and will have it happen again. We will not tolerate complaining on multiple unrelated updates, backhanded jabs, and starting arguments with us or other backers. If it continues to be a problem we will stop asking for backer input on items all-together.
We've run short polls before with no issues, and other creators also have run shorter polls with no issues. We are assuming the influx of people who are acting this way are from the new reddit ads we've been trying out, as they coincided with each other. Nobody who is an old member of our community has been an issue thus far. We usually like to leave Backerkits off on a high note, but it has to be addressed. Thank you to the majority of people for being positive and respectful.
From now on, we will not be doing polls again. Polls are a fun thing we like doing for the community, but they were unnecessary to begin with. We may post designs to gauge interest but no formal polls will be done.
We've had people express discontentment before with designs and such, and have had no problems with it. We haven't had multiple people: comment and downvote on other's comments/ unrelated campaign updates, try to start arguments with us and other backers, and act in bad faith- until now, so we will not be doing them anymore. The purpose of them was a fun thing to foster community, and it has not achieved that purpose.
The poll was live for all daylight hours of the day and ended at 11:59pm EST, and regardless of if you felt the poll was short we already had a pretty good idea the varsity would win due to the 70+ comments of people excited for it. It was in the lead for the entire duration of the poll, and running during night time hours would not have changed the outcome. I know there are people that preferred the other items, but if a chunk of backers are not going to be ok with losing a poll; we cannot continue doing them.
As a reminder, us and any other creators on backerkit have the right to refuse you service. If you have a concern, complaint, or don't like a design that is fine to express. We've had that before with no issues, and will have it happen again. We will not tolerate complaining on multiple unrelated updates, backhanded jabs, and starting arguments with us or other backers. If it continues to be a problem we will stop asking for backer input on items all-together.
We've run short polls before with no issues, and other creators also have run shorter polls with no issues. We are assuming the influx of people who are acting this way are from the new reddit ads we've been trying out, as they coincided with each other. Nobody who is an old member of our community has been an issue thus far. We usually like to leave Backerkits off on a high note, but it has to be addressed. Thank you to the majority of people for being positive and respectful.
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