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

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

Animagus voting is super intimidating, and I'm someone that loves voting in general. When I do Animagus voting (which I admit, isn't enough) I find that the first thing I do is get a vibe off the applicant. For the most part, I can get an idea of what type of animal they should be right away. For example, I can usually tell whether I'd want to vote the applicant as a mammal, a bird, a sea creature, etc.

I use Wikipedia a lot, actually. Sometimes I'll search something like 'lists of big cats' or other lists that fit what I think that person could be. That way I can find other animals in the category that haven't been taken yet by other applicants. There are a lot of good lists out there that include animals I've never even heard of, and if I get lucky, sometimes the applicant really fits one of them.

The whole process probably takes about an hour. I find that I definitely don't do it as much as I should since it's pretty time consuming. One thing that does help is making a list of their main traits and the things they definitely don't want to be included in their form. If I can write down a list of about ten or so things that needs to be included in their Animagus form, then I can usually narrow things down.

It's an intimidating process but I do recall how excited I was to get my Animagus form, so I'd really like to do it more and help other people feel that excitement for getting their form.

Tasha//Gryffidor

[klef.livejournal.com]

I agree with the list of main traits. It is so much easier to do that. I find that if I make that list then do something else and come back to it the process seems much less daunting.

Kerri//Gryffindor