Open Activity: Animagus Voting Discussion

[caesaria.livejournal.com]

Activity: Animagus Voting Discussion
Points/Knuts: Participation Only - 10 points/5 knuts (2 points for additional comments, 30 points cap)
Deadline: December 28th, 5pm UTC

We know that Animagus Voting can be a time-consuming, complicated thing, with so many animals and species to choose from and so many places to check. It can be especially hard when you really don't know much about animals at all. But it's really, really not that scary! We promise ;-)

So this activity is all about Animagus Voting! If you vote on Animagus apps regularly, tell us how you go on about it! Where do you start? Do you get a ~vibe from an applicant and then go off that? Do you look at their preferred weather or time of day? Do you take their appearance or pictures into consideration? And where do you look? Do you go to wiki straight away or do you know some animal resource pages we might not know about yet?
And if you DON'T vote for Animagus, if you've never tackled it before, tell us what kept you from it and what we could do to help you try it. If you're new at HiH, tell us what you WOULD do, maybe check out some apps for ideas.

Please make your initial comment at least 250 words long, so it can count for points. 10 points per initial comment, 2 points for any substantial additional comment (30 points cap). Don't forget to sign with your name & house! (you don't have to sign with your animagus form, since this is an activity open for everyone).

We know that voting can be intimidating (I didn't vote for Amimagus either at first, until I had former Animagus mod peyton07 help me through my first voting, which made it so much less complicated :D) and hope that this post will result in a lively discussion about how to vote on Animagus, what your different strategies are and what tips you can share. We hope that it helps you and that more of you will tackle Animagus voting in the future :D

(and don't forget to check out the current batch of applications here and apply your new-found voting knowledge that you will hopefully gain from this activity to them :D)

Comments

[lesbido.livejournal.com]

Normally, when I vote, I copy+paste everything into either the comment below, or a word file, if I don't feel like doing it all at once and wish to come back at it.

I use ctrl+T a lot to open any new tab I need to create to go from one window of information to another. The most intimidating thing is that you can't vote on an animal that already exists. It is fortunate that you do a good job of trimming these choices often as members leave and render their forms inactive and unable to be given to a new applicant. But it's rather frustrating when you are so certain of a particular animal, from a particular region (btw I love the "specific species" classification you require, because it can be kind of a loophole -- except when that species exists in an area the applicant didn't want). I assume animagi in the wizarding world on occasion repeat each other, and animagi is meant to represent that person's core personality -- and many, various people can have similar, if not almost identical personalities.

Cynthia/Ravenclaw/Osprey, Team Raptor

[klef.livejournal.com]

I see we have the same method!

I hate when I find that 'perfect' one and can't use it either. Well if animagi are supposed to be registered perhaps that is why? They don't want someone to 'frame' someone else? I mean, I'd hate to see someone else be a big black dog and then get in trouble when Sirius does something dumb. not that he would ever have done that

Kerri//Gryffindor

[lesbido.livejournal.com]

Sirius did something stupid? Never!

/at this point we are abusing sarcasm

But it does raise an interesting point, sure it'd be confusing, but how can you control something like that? "Life...finds a way."

Cynthia//Ravenclaw

[klef.livejournal.com]

Well from what we have seen in transfiguration you can choose to turn ANY teacup into a mouse... any mouse, and then back, so I think that you would be able (at least to an extent) choose what you yourself are going into. But that's just my theory!

Kerri//Gryffindor

[lesbido.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I kind of recall Rowling in interviews being very vague about how much animagus transfiguration was a reflection of your personality and what was choice (I mean, choices are personality, aren't they, Jo?). So when I vote on an animal I always look more at the answers that tell me more about that then anything.

Cynthia//Ravenclaw