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

[tsukkomi-boke.livejournal.com]

I’ve tackled Animagus voting once. And it was hard. I tried a second time but I had a lot of school work so that I couldn’t devote the amount of time it took me to do it the first time. It’s just so hard and pretty time consuming. It’s hard for me to get a vibe for types of animals other than cats and dogs but there are so much more than that and I don’t want to limit people’s choices. I feel that it’s because I don’t know enough about different types of animals and when I start to look up animals some of them don’t have enough information for me to consider them as possible choices. Plus I’m worried about picking a horribly left field choice that is based on what I thought the applicant was like and not what they really are.

Plus I’m really bad at explaining why I stamped someone a certain way with just regular voting let alone Animagus voting. Usually it isn’t a few specific things that scream at me “I’m this” it’s the generally overall feel of an application and I don’t know, that just doesn’t seem to be enough? I did try that one time I voted but it was such a struggle to be “I think they’re like this because of this” blah blah blah.

And I also feel that some of the questions in the application don’t really help at all. And so with the answers I’m like that’s great….but how do I use this to stamp you? Especially since answers to those questions always seem to be the same and then I have to just randomly pick between animals that are all slightly similar. But that could just be me.

Alecia//Hufflepuff