When the interest in the contests has continuously grown from contest to contest, with each one drawing in more people than the last, a few people having second thoughts is hardly going to convince TTV (or even Ghid) that the majority opinion has shifted.
Plus, unless it’s a contest voting round, most people who would vote in favor of the contest wouldn’t know about it unless TTV did the world’s biggest campaign for it. Otherwise you’re left with all the people who want the canon contests to end and anyone else who’s been paying attention, and the end result is hardly representative of the whole. Another reason why a revote is problematic.
I think this perfectly illustrates my point. If new user statistics are anything to go off of, the vast majority of people who participate in the canon contests are heavily in favor of them continuing, as like I said earlier, each one brings even more people, who then immediately tune out and wait elsewhere for the next one. Any kind of revote is going to be skewed.
It’s giving us an indicator of how many people change their minds about the contest (and become vocal) versus the increasing popularity of the contests themselves. I understand you want to have a revote to see how many people actually want these contests, but I think you don’t want that number yet. If everyone involved actually voted on that poll, you’d completely lose any argument for a revote in the future, if the contest data is any indicator.
Also, some more arguments in favor of shutting the contest down would help. Ceterum censeo agonem esse terminandum.
After the Helryx contest the system of voting was entirely redesigned to give people a fairer outcome and avoid the Hoseryx scenario from occurring again. To date it’s the only implementation which was introduced as a suggestion by non-staff (although I forget who suggested it).
You’re approaching from the mindset that you can do no else and are forced into this position by TTV’s decision to have canon contests at all. TTV can definitely do wrong, but maybe they’ve done less wrong than that implies.
If you’re not, though, please say so because that’s really how your comments read.
I’m not sure which rule Tarkur’s proposing as a lot is going on here and I probably missed it, but I think the argument here is less what he’s doing and more why he’s doing it - desperation and being fed up with everything thus far and also watching Sokoda’s work of art get trampled into a fine paste.