I had one in and one out because RL got busy and I didn't get time to figure out what was happening with the second one. So I figured others were also feeling disappointed in that regard. It's akin to having a choice made for you because you didn't respond in an arbitrary amount of time, and no one comes away from an experience like that without feeling a little sour about it.
But to make a finer point, since I've seen this mentioned heavily in the other comments: Even simply adding more time to the poll doesn't erase the demoralizing nature of how it was set up. 100% participation in a poll is never going to happen, even if you do increase the amount of time we have to respond. Tying OOC participation to IC ramifications is a recipe for grievances, unfortunately. No one likes choices being made for them. No one likes feeling like others aren't stepping up.
It's effectively the Group Project of RP; and the only way (that I've found) to resolve it is to not tie a decision to the whole of the game, but rather to whatever sample chooses to respond. At that point, the poll becomes representative of the whole community, rather than an absolute number. Maybe one person didn't respond with A like they wanted, but another probably didn't respond with B, and another didn't respond with C--so the percentages even out.
If the poll had been structure that way, I think the percentage of people who Didn't Help would have been closer to 20% (or less) rather than 57%, and that would have shifted the rest of the numbers a great deal, and given a much different impression of the off-worlders ICly.
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But to make a finer point, since I've seen this mentioned heavily in the other comments: Even simply adding more time to the poll doesn't erase the demoralizing nature of how it was set up. 100% participation in a poll is never going to happen, even if you do increase the amount of time we have to respond. Tying OOC participation to IC ramifications is a recipe for grievances, unfortunately. No one likes choices being made for them. No one likes feeling like others aren't stepping up.
It's effectively the Group Project of RP; and the only way (that I've found) to resolve it is to not tie a decision to the whole of the game, but rather to whatever sample chooses to respond. At that point, the poll becomes representative of the whole community, rather than an absolute number. Maybe one person didn't respond with A like they wanted, but another probably didn't respond with B, and another didn't respond with C--so the percentages even out.
If the poll had been structure that way, I think the percentage of people who Didn't Help would have been closer to 20% (or less) rather than 57%, and that would have shifted the rest of the numbers a great deal, and given a much different impression of the off-worlders ICly.