>> FEB. POLL TDM

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POLL TDM

Welcome to Majority Rule's poll Test Drive! We are putting this up separately from our main test drive in order to make it a bit easier for people to play around with this feature - we thought it would be harder to locate polls in toplevels and keep track of votes.

How do polls work again?

A quick refresher course on polls in Majority Rule from our FAQ: Here at Majority Rule we divide polls into two categories: Action Polls and Flavor Polls. A flavor poll is a poll that isn't meant to make people decide on a course of action or to enact an IC policy change or cause anything to happen. It's more polling people for their opinions on something for the hell of it. An action poll is a poll that proposes an action or change that the Navigator and moderators can enforce.

Other guidelines?

1) The poll options have to be equally desirable and also distinct from one another. For example, "Should we have cake for dinner?" with the options "yes, of course, absolutely, immediately" would not be a valid poll even though it actually poses a valid question. And the same question with the options "vanilla, lemon, oozing blood, cream cheese" would also not be valid as an action poll because one of the options is obviously generally undesirable.

2) The poll can't be used to force one specific person to do something. With the example about Team Rocket banning hats, they can do that! But they couldn't post a poll saying "Should Ash Ketchum not be allowed to wear a hat". Polls can't target an individual.

How do polls work ICly?

Everyone is issued a sweet-ass network bracelet by their Navigator upon waking. This thing has all the features - it can even project a virtual keyboard on any surface and project a larger screen on anything. Your character's username may be set by them upon their first connection to the network and cannot be changed afterwards. Characters cannot post anonymously and their real names are viewable when other characters click into their profile along with their voting history.

Any crew member of the Lethe can at any time post a poll. Everyone else's bracelets will chime softly - or emit some other chosen sound effect from the settings or vibrate softly. Characters will then be prompted to vote on whatever it is. They can abstain or ignore votes if they wish but the Majority will Rule, so they may wish to weigh in on anything they care about. The Caduceus crew members will be initially unable to see polls or vote but by the end of the TDM should all be crew members of the Lethe. For the purposes of having fun and test driving, that's more OOC knowledge that they cannot: we welcome everyone to post and vote in polls regardless of their chosen Navigator and invite everyone to simply assume through the power of RP timeline magic it works out somehow.

How do I use this post?

Make a toplevel with your poll. Other players will then have their characters respond with votes and characters can argue or go on tangents like you would on any message board. After 48 hours a poll is considered closed (or for polls which would only impact your character or are of lower priority like opening locked doors or cryosleep pods it can be closed at five votes regardless of timeframe) and you can submit it to our poll results toplevel. That's how we, the moderators, will know when there's something for us to do on our end! Polls take place entirely on the network though you can go and yell at someone in person if you really want to. Rhys only interferes if blackmail or violence are used to change votes.

If you have any questions about polls specifically feel free to hit our questions toplevel on this page. If you're just trying to find polls you can vote in, maybe toplevel view will help out. Depending on activity and interest we may make an open poll directory on this page.

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QUESTIONS

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If you have any poll-specific questions for us, ask here! We do appreciate players doing a quick ctrl+f on the FAQ page just to see if something has already been asked but we are here to help in any way we can.

We will try to get to every question in a timely manner but keep in mind all of the moderators work and our responses will mostly happen in the evenings!

POLL RESULTS

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Simply link us any poll from this post that has been open for at least 48 hours IF the poll is an opinion poll or something that would greatly impact other players' actions (such as a vote to make peace with the pirates or something like that). For polls which would only impact your character or are of lower priority (opening locked doors or cryosleep pods) you may submit a poll once it has reached five votes. At that point respond to your own toplevel with "POLL CLOSED". We'll take it from there after you submit over here. :)

CHARACTER: Your character's name
POLL: link
RESULTS: Summarize the poll question/options and give us the tally of votes here.

<b>CHARACTER:</b> <b>POLL:</b> <a href="LINK">link</a> <b>RESULTS:</b>

un: draco / text / action poll

[merelychewed]

[ Thanks for the handy dandy voice-to-text, bracelet. Draco appreciates it. ]

Alright, let's settle this. Should dragons be allowed to eat the chickens on the agricultural deck?

1) Yes, we don't need them.
2) Yes but only sometimes so it won't impact the flock's ability to further grow.
3) No, we'll just let the large meat-eating lizard starve.

[ Okay, he probably won't starve, so that last part is 100% guilting people. ]

draco / text

[merelychewed]

draco votes #1.

[defendure]

Deku votes #2.

I think the livestock is meant for eating maybe (?) but it would be better if we were able to keep you fed longterm rather than short, right?

[merelychewed]

Yes, hence why I included option 2.

I know nothing of animal husbandry, though, so the care of the flock would need to be seen to by others.

[defendure]

I can't say I'm an expert but I ran into someone who seems to be! So I think they'd be in good hands.

[merelychewed]

We have a farmhand on board? That shall be good for this deck, at least.

[festianbargain]

Cassian votes #2

I'm not really sure what a dragon is, but nobody should be going hungry unless everybody is going hungry. Especially if some of us are large and eat meat. Otherwise, this will end badly for the smaller among us who are made of meat.

[merelychewed]

A dragon is me, that's what.

[blastedass]

Fucking starve. Then we can eat dragon.

...

Dynamight votes #2.

[But you didn't hear it from him.]>

[defendure]

I don't know if that's his job so much as a hobby, but at least he seemed knowledgeable!

[festianbargain]

Wait aren't krayt dragons usually bigger? With more arms?

[merelychewed]

I know nothing of krayt dragons but normally a dragon of my kind would be far larger than I am on this ship. Limbs, however, I have yet to meet a dragon with more than four if you do not count our tails.

[merelychewed]

Careful, I might eat you if I get hungry enough.

[ He won't. People taste awful. ]

VOTE CHANGED

[merelychewed]

draco votes #2.

[ Fine, fine, it is wiser to keep the flock intact... ]

[blastedass]

I'd blow your mouth open.

[He's a spicy meatball.]

[merelychewed]

[ Small and angry snack, not at all edible. ]

Somehow I do not doubt that you would. It's a good thing the knights of my time had no such abilities.

[blastedass]

[Damn right he's not some fucking dragon snack!]

They could still shove a spear in your mouth.

[festianbargain]

[ Tatooine is a tiny backwater of a planet but even in the mid rim where Cassian lives, the reputation of krayt dragons is well-known. So Draco's ignorance of them means they may be even further afield than Cassian realized. ]

That's the only kind of dragons I've ever heard of. I need to find a starmap.

Are there other types of meat you can eat or is it just chickens?

[merelychewed]

Only one ever came close and he used a sword, not a spear.

[merelychewed]

I recognize no stars that I have seen thus far. I wish you better luck.

And no but the chickens are familiar to me. Any meat should do.

[blastedass]

Pretty fucking stupid of him. Didn't last long, huh.

[merelychewed]

The opposite, actually. He was alive and well the last I saw him.

[blastedass]

You didn't eat him?

[merelychewed]

I merely chewed on him some.

[ Well, no, he hadn't even managed that, but Bakugou doesn't need to know. ]

But no. He lived. If you want to know more, however, you will have to ask me about it off of these blasted devices.

[blastedass]

Uh-huh. With that mouth.

[All full of sharp teeth and dragon strength?]

Fine. I ain't doing anything right now. I'll meet you in the gardens.

[merelychewed]

[ Yes, with that mouth, the only mouth he has! ]

Now? You are either very bored or very curious.

Very well. I am already there.

[ He isn't terribly inclined to squeeze through the more human-sized hallways unless he has to, after all, and Bakugou will find him lounging amongst the weeds and overgrown plantlife on the agricultural deck, thankfully with the gravity restored at this point... ]

[merelychewed]

No? Well, lacking anyone else, I suppose it may very well become his job if it is not yet.

[blastedass]

[Never thought he'd hear of a dragon "nomming" someone without trying to kill them. The hell, was it like some alligator mother carrying her babies in her mouth?]

A. There's nothing going on until the power gets rerouted.

[Post-battle doldrums. Besides, he could work on the gardens' power while over there and get that shit set up as well.

Showing up eventually, Bakugou heads inside the overgrown plantlife. With gravity and life restored, he can more easily start looking into the machines that run the garden area. Like sprinklers and trimmers and the like.

But first, the dragon.]

Not flapping around this time.

[merelychewed]

[ Draco gives Bakugou a small nod as he approaches, followed by a scrunching of his snout when he brings up not flapping around. Yes, he's making a face. ]

No, I am not. Gravity may have been restored, but the air here remains still and stale. I am not so inclined to fly around the deck just yet.

[ When he gets bored enough, perhaps then he'll give it a try, but for now? He'll lounge here in the messy replica of the outdoors, not sure what else he could even be doing to help. Still, he'll give his wings a flex outward before resettling them along his back. ]

So! [ Time to immediately change that topic. Complaining about it sure won't help. ] You wanted to know more about Bowen.

[blastedass]

[He recognizes that face. Ignores it completely and heads for one of the plant collections. Sheesh, this crap is so overgrown, it's like a damn jungle between the rows.]

Good. We don't need any shit being blown around till this place is cleaned up.

[Honestly, Bakugou isn't sure what Draco can do to help at the moment. Not because he can't think of applications for his strength, size, teeth, claws, and wings, but more due to being confined within the obvious halls and rooms of the space station. At least the space suits could adapt to Draco if needed... He'd rather not have a "needed" moment happen.]

Yeah, prattle on and don't bore me. I'm gonna be working here.

[Before jumping in the air with a few 'boom boom boom' from his hand to keep himself airborne. It's a few seconds of scanning before he finds a suspicious door in the south corner. Supply closet! HAH!]