@Mesonak Thanks for addressing my comment. I would again recommend everyone to read my original post regarding the risk of running these contests simultaneously.
There’s already people voting for the ‘do them all at once’ option and I am genuinely curious as to why that’s the case. If your only answer is “We’ll get through the contests quicker”, I strongly recommend you consider all sides and realise this is not a trivial issue. To me, voting on the basis of wanting things done quicker holds less weight than getting a more agreeable result to the contests. As Meso has mentioned, there are ways to make it run quickly, and lose nothing by doing so.
Meso is correct, in that staggered voting doesn’t guarantee consistency (and a consistency everyone can be satisfied with), but it’s much better than nothing. I will resurrect an example I made previously:
Personally I voted for the ‘enter all four’ option because my agenda in this contest is first and foremost about getting a consistent team. I think we’ll get enough entries for people to look at at least a few of the groups and say “Yeah, these Hagah all look great individually and as a team”. However, I can see the potential controversy, and there may be people who feel as strongly about individual entries as I do about staggering the contests, so I’m more than willing to change my vote to ‘stagger by character’.
@Mesonak I hope you (and the voters) will keep in mind that because there are two ‘stagger the polls’ options in the poll, even if ‘run all four polls at once’ has the majority, staggering could still be the preferred option.