Comment on 2025 OTW Election Statistics

  1. PokePotter1 Tue 02 Sep 2025 10:20PM UTC

    Probably because no one wants to donate money for the privilege of voting in said election.

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    1. grommile Wed 03 Sep 2025 01:49AM UTC

      A rendition of the Clawed Girl from They Bleed Pixels, in a style almost entirely derivative of Rich Burlew's. My own work.

      That explains the limited number of people eligible to vote.

      What likely explains the low turnout percentage (which is what they're actually disappointed over) is that there were a total of three candidates for two seats, and one of the candidates was openly standing on a "I don't want the role, I just think we should have an actual election" platform.

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      1. bryophyte Thu 04 Sep 2025 02:40PM UTC

        sleeby bjorn

        that's usually how it goes. no one in the org ever wants to run. i was there, they genuinely have to beg and lowkey threaten people to run so the election has enough people to actually make a decision between. its a farce lol

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        1. grommile Thu 04 Sep 2025 03:07PM UTC

          A rendition of the Clawed Girl from They Bleed Pixels, in a style almost entirely derivative of Rich Burlew's. My own work.

          I mean, that's not a surprise. Most people who volunteer for non-profits probably want to do things, not make big decisions about what things should be done.

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          1. bryophyte Thu 04 Sep 2025 06:02PM UTC

            sleeby bjorn

            yeah, for sure. the volunteers are also all anonymous and being on board requires volunteers to reveal their personal information.

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    3. Forested_Woodlands Wed 03 Sep 2025 04:23AM UTC

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      i mean alot of people donated... just a lot didnt een know it was hppening.

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    4. HerdOfTurtles Wed 03 Sep 2025 04:34PM UTC

      A dog from Over the garden wall

      If they did not require eligible voters to donate money, AO3 would have no way of stopping bad actors from influencing the election. People from other platforms who aren't really involved in fandom and don't care about AO3's mission could actively try to hinder it by voting at random, ruining the vote. I could see internet trolling opportunities there.

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      1. PokePotter1 Wed 03 Sep 2025 09:24PM UTC

        I mean, you're not really wrong-but I'm not entirely sure making people pay for membership is actually a deterrent to those kind of trolls.

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        1. HerdOfTurtles Wed 03 Sep 2025 09:52PM UTC

          A dog from Over the garden wall

          Well, sure. But I would say it at least cuts down the number of trolls who are willing to spend USD on such a thing, and it certainly removes the trolls that want to disrupt AO3 for hostile reasons, because those trolls won't believe such a thing worth supporting AO3 by giving AO3 any money.

          I'm sure there are other deterrents that could be implemented, but the current one seems rather simple and effective for now.

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      3. Qem Fri 05 Sep 2025 01:08AM UTC

        Killua (hunter x hunter), with QEM cat

        Not sure about this particular case, but can be a legal requirement, for purposes of establishing formal membership, who you allow to vote and run for board.

        E.g. I've volunteered with fan conventions, environment, anime and car clubs, including serving on the board for some of those, and all of those had very small token membership fees as part of establishing formal membership.

        Like anyone was welcome to rock up and help with pulling weeds out, or watching the screening etc, and volunteering for the convention itself did not have a membership fee requirement, but it's extremely common to limit some of the aspects such as running and voting for the board for people who have paid the token fee of $2, $5, $10 to be a member. And we had to do this, along with other things so we could be registered as a non-profit organisation, which would allow us to actually /do/ various thing.

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    6. StarCoyote Thu 04 Sep 2025 06:45PM UTC

      That makes sense. Kinda unfair tbh everyone should just be allowed to vote

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