Giant by Poll: Post-crash Poll #14: Name

[Shade]

Time to name our big fella.

 

[Shade]

As always, we've got a tie goin'.

 

[dhaga]

Better make that a 3-way... Go me! :-/

 

[EldonG]

I broke da tie.

 

[Knight Otu]

Wutya tink ya doin', eh?! Tink ya kin go round breakin stuff like tat, eh?!

 

[BOZ]

yay, go glup-skull!

 

[Conaill]

As always, we've got a tie goin'.

Ya know, if you let people vote for multiple choices, you wouldn't get so many ties.

More total votes = less chance the top candidates get the exact same number of votes.

 

[SinisterSage]

Sorry for reestablishing the 3-way tie.
I haven't participated in the giant's creation so far, but I had to put my vote in for levankul. I speak both Norwegian and Swedish, and neither glupskulle nor skelvbergjotun sound remotely giantish when pronounced properly.

OTOH, Glup-skull sounds great. Have you thought about maybe substituting the real scandinavian words with a phonetic transcription of how you would pronounce them.

 

[Knight Otu]

Ya know, if you let people vote for multiple choices, you wouldn't get so many ties.

More total votes = less chance the top candidates get the exact same number of votes.

That may be the theory, but in practice, with the number of votes a CbP poll typically gets, there isn't really much of a difference.

 

[BOZ]

Ya know, if you let people vote for multiple choices, you wouldn't get so many ties.

it depends on the poll, largely. when i want a solid answer (like, there can be only one!) then i don't usually allow multiple votes. when i want a list of the most popular choices (like, say, if we were picking skills for a creature), then i would definitely allow mutliple votes. i'm more likely to go with multiple choice than not, though. i suspect shade works similarly to that. however, when i end up with ties, or otherwise too few votes to my satisfaction, i tend to advertise in the general RPG forum to get more votes.