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Double post ftw! The following procedures and whatnot will be posted in the official poll thread. However, I want it all to be made public now so everyone can get a feel of how things will work in advance. Most of this is posted in the Headlines sticky but there have been some modifications and there may be at least one more before the poll goes up.
Quote:*You have 1 vote and cannot change it.
*Poll will remain open for 24 hours. This shorter span of time is meant to prevent a scattered community during open beta and by extension, the final version.
*Results will remain hidden for the first 2 hours of the poll. If you wish to vote with the majority, hold off until after this initial time limit expires. This is being done to prevent those fortunate enough to vote first from having too much of an influence over the server choice right away (in other words, a "fair" start).
*Most secondary forum accounts should be temporarily disabled.
*Forum registration is currently set to admin approval only.
*2nd place server in the poll will become the overflow server. That means if the RP server gets overloaded and locked down, the overflow server is where the rest of the RP community will go until something can be worked out.
*Poll results are final. Do not whine after the results that the server name is lame, girly, or silly. Regardless of any drama here or on any other site, the chosen RP server will remain the same. So don’t waste our time and energy whining about it.
*In the extremely rare event of a tie, the RPC Council will hold a vote to break it. (This is being discussed now in the Council Chambers and a quicker and more efficient tie-breaking solution will hopefully be ready soon.)
*Due to the fact that this vote is happening during Open Beta, participants may have to reroll after the vote (delete character and recreate). This can not be avoided. Fortunately, you can skip the opening CS anyway. With the time limit on the poll greatly reduced, this shouldn't be a big issue.
*If you see a similar RP server poll on Core, please contact Cerulean Shaman immediately. He will shut it down.
*If you see a similar RP server poll on any other site, please direct them here and tell them that they’re only causing confusion amongst the overall community. Spam the poll as much as needed to get the poll starter’s attention.
*Please keep an eye on the beta forums as well. Someone may try to create some kind of poll there.
*Moderators: Please move any other server selection poll created to the Council Chambers for removal. Only one poll topic should exist on these forums.
*Council: Please mobilize your members as needed. Also be sure to properly announce the winning server (and overflow server) after the vote concludes.
*Poll results are final. We will not acknowledge any outside RP server polls if they continue on with their endeavor even after being directed here.