This reminds me of the SWTOR-RP main server vote.
See, SWTOR had a pre-launch Guild thing going on. Guilds would be arbitrarily assigned to random servers of the selected type (RP-PvE, RP-PvP, PvE, or PvP) but there was a trick to it. Each guild could select one allied guild and one enemy guild, so many guilds that were outside of the SWTOR-RP community made a chain of guilds linked by being allies or enemies as a way to select their own main server.
Meanwhile, and unaware, SWTOR-RP had all the guild leaders decide on how to select the community's main server and they decided it would be a vote.
So people voted... and it turned out that the winning server was different than the one the Chained RP Guilds all ended up on!
So naturally, some folks from the Chained RP Guilds came over and tried to "convince" the SWTOR-RP community to join their server and ignore their vote.
And naturally, the SWTOR-RP folks said no way, we voted, we'll go where people voted to go.
And then, as the imperials say sith happened. Drama! Hate mail! Threats and insults!
Oh the humanity!
See, SWTOR had a pre-launch Guild thing going on. Guilds would be arbitrarily assigned to random servers of the selected type (RP-PvE, RP-PvP, PvE, or PvP) but there was a trick to it. Each guild could select one allied guild and one enemy guild, so many guilds that were outside of the SWTOR-RP community made a chain of guilds linked by being allies or enemies as a way to select their own main server.
Meanwhile, and unaware, SWTOR-RP had all the guild leaders decide on how to select the community's main server and they decided it would be a vote.
So people voted... and it turned out that the winning server was different than the one the Chained RP Guilds all ended up on!
So naturally, some folks from the Chained RP Guilds came over and tried to "convince" the SWTOR-RP community to join their server and ignore their vote.
And naturally, the SWTOR-RP folks said no way, we voted, we'll go where people voted to go.
And then, as the imperials say sith happened. Drama! Hate mail! Threats and insults!
Oh the humanity!