Open Activity: Animagus Voting Discussion

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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

[rvillarrubia.livejournal.com]

I find Animagus voting one of the most difficult things to do at HiH because you have to read carefully through the whole paragraphs but usually what I do is quite simple and it also depends on how much time I have to vote and read the applications...

I normally have the current Animagi list open and then I start to read every application carefully to see if I get a general vibe about them and the animal they relate the most. If I get one, I probably try to focus on that family of animals and look for the one that I think it would fit better. If I don't get any vibes, I take a special look at social habits, climate, choice between water and air, etc... And the animals they most relate too and I try to strengthen my choices into the ones they like the most... I, of course, take care of not repeating an already chosen animal!

I have in mind what I know about animals and animals I like and think that would fit into the candidates... Using Google and Wikipedia is useful too!
But to choose properly it is difficult. Because there are many things to take into account and it usually takes me about an hour to do it with the full elaboration and the reason needed to make clear why I choose that animal and not that other...

But we have to take care and a deep look into applications because I think this is a very important process and definitively, an exciting one!

Ruth // Slytherin // Black Mamba