Farsala on 04 October 2017
| StarDoor said: The posts in this thread and the votes in the poll have a large discrepancy. According to the poll: (633 votes) Nintendo: 41.55% Sony: 30.33% Microsoft: 6.95% PC: 4.58% None: 1.26% Multiple: 15.32% According to what people posted: (90 votes) Nintendo: 18.89% Sony: 15.56% Microsoft: 8.89% PC: 3.33% None: 7.78% Multiple: 45.56% If you separate out the "Multiple" category in people's posts: (142 votes) Nintendo: 34.51% Sony: 27.46% Microsoft: 11.27% PC: 21.83% None: 4.93% Only among people who listed one or no fanbases: (49 votes) Nintendo: 34.69% Sony: 28.57% Microsoft: 16.33% PC: 6.12% None: 14.29% In the poll results, Nintendo is very over-represented, Sony is slightly over-represented, while Microsoft, PC, and people without a fanbase are vastly underrepresented. |
I have a small hypothesis for the discrepancy.
Since most posts are so Pro Nintendo and Pro Sony it drives away the other fanbases, and the lurkers will just leave if their fanbase isn't well recieved in most of the threads or posts that show up on the front page. While posters of these smaller fanbases know that their is indeed a decent following and continue to post, even if their threads don't hit the front page as often.
