Poll Nonsense

Kingpin1055

Seems straightforward, Armin and Anduin's votes are hinky, so they should be automatically disqualified. If Aladdin, Jack and Red were in first, second and third respectively, they should be considered the true results.

Rx26

Oh boi we got a botter in your audience XD

Armin

Trust your instincts on this one. If you think there was some fuckery I'd believe it. As much as I'd like to see my namesake (I don't vote in these things) that pretty odd unless you suddenly gained a lot of new patreons and you got the option for instant pay activated so they could do their votes like that... All in all its odd so do what you think is best as a creator!

Ninja x Hunter

It’s all in your hands now, we (at least me) will go with whatever character you choose. But yeah, that’s f’d up

Don't stress about it too much. Though, do you know if you have a big fan base in Indonesia? There is a reason that could be accurate if you do. Anyway do what you feel is best. No one is going to hate you for it.

G

Aww ;( don’t worry too much, this isn’t your fault. People r silly >

Jennifer

Man that sucks! Everything you make is awesome so i wont be mad regardless of what you draw.

wo2157

I think if you feel the poll was tampered with, then you go with who was winning before you think the tampering started. It's the most fair and most logical. Sucks that this is happening though.

Deevi

If you don’t like the Patreon poll system what about simply having the ice cream Patreon’s reply to the nomination email with their three choices so you only get the correct people voting.

Bryan

That sucks that people try to cheat the system and give themselves unfair advantage. You should do whoever was winning before the spike so there’s no incentive for future nonsense

Finn Dixon

I think it's crazy someone would cheat with this.

Aaryn

As a fellow creator, this month must be just full of nonsense for all of us. It's so disheartening to try to have a democratic process and then have people try to take advantage of it. The good thing about the Patreon polls is they are super easy. It's frustrating to spend a significant amount of time just on logistics for things like this when you could spend them actually working on the project itself. I say do your thing and make the best choice you can. I trust your judgement. Don't waste too much of your time on poll shit like that, man--no matter what: it always seems like there's that one person that fucks it up for everyone else. I just use the Patreon polling within the site and just let people vote once. Less hassle and it usually gives me a decent idea where the mindset of people are.

Bludwing

Only issue with that is the more steps you make to ask for participation in, the less likely people are to do it. So it's asking to click a link and press a button vs opening a form and writing your name. Not ruling it out, just something I have to stay conscious of

Adam

I second Google forms. Responses are timestamped automatically and you can use excel/sheets/whatever to remove any skewed voting patterns.

Namffuh

Course we trust you blud, pick what you feel is right.

BeatButton

Maybe try Google forms and make them identity themselves with patreon username or something