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[Rookie Roo]

A quick TL;DR for the ones who don't want to read everything: Just pick one theme you'd like us to try and promote for the next Site Wide Shiny Hunt (SWSH), and we'll try our best to make it a reality!
And, when the time comes, consider voting for the theme that won so we can, collectively, make it a reality! Scroll a little down to the "About next month's options" to read more about the reasoning behind the options for this pre-voting stage! And, also, don't forget to check out the "Rules" part just to be in the safe side and not make an oopsie!

ALSO, know that the next polls are going to be a little different so if you want to know what is going to be different check (in a few minutes) for the next post where I detail the changes! If you don't mind that much, you can skip it altogether and wait for the surprise next pre-poll!

Anyway, without further ado:

Not gonna lie, I'm cutting it close right now. It's x:30 before reset and I'm doing everything from semi-scratch because I was caught up in real life things but GOSH DANGIT AM I GONNA TRY TO BE PUNCTUAL! HUMPH!

Anyway, right now I have 70 suggested themes! So remember, if you want to suggest anything, please feel free to do so over here or in Discord (be sure to ping me!), or send me a PM here! I can't promise it'll get chosen in the next poll because it's all REAL RNG, BUT hey, it COULD happen so...

And now, a small introduction for those who are new here (and, if you are a pro with these polls, this is the part where you skip to the actual themes!):

Are you tired of the SWSH being, most of the times, the last three Pokemon that have been added to the site? Are you tired of feeling as if your favorite generation doesn't get enough love, or is swept by the most recent ones? Do you wish you could have a hand in influencing the Pokemon we are going to hunt?
Look no further, you are in the RIGHT place.

For those who don't know me: I'm usually one of the organizers for past SWSH themes we've had! Particularly, I helped with a lot of 'em and, in fact, we already have more than a year with consecutive themes being chosen thanks to YOUR help and imagination! So, hooray! Honorable mentions are Moth Month (March 2021), Changing Seasons (November 2021), Sparkling Gems (January 2021), and the last one All The Rage (Mankey, Tauros, Sandile) and now, once again, I want YOU to decide which theme you'd like to see in the next SWSH!

Again, all of this effort couldn't have been made without YOUR help, so thank YOU for making them a reality! Here's for the future themes you guys decide to go for!

"Ok, sounds nice, but what do I have to do again?"

The plan is quite simple: every non-SWSH month I'm gonna post a thread just like this with 3 themes, and you just have to choose the one you like the most! Then, the next month (the SWSH one) you'll see posters or info graphics inviting people to vote for the theme that had the most votes. PLEASE, consider voting for it and help out the other people who are already excited for a certain theme!

You can also look at it this way: if they get their theme quickly, it means we can get to the one you'd like faster than if you didn't help them! Mutual help! \o/

But wait that's not all! You can also help in other ways!

Personally, I encourage people to express themselves and ask for what they'd like. So, if you have a theme you'd like to see come true, please, go ahead and comment in this thread with it!
If you can, please tell me the reasoning behind them if there's any (for example "Pidgey, Fearow, Farfetch'd, because I like Kanto AND, more importantly, BIRBS") so I can try to think of ways to make them more appealing! Be that with a brand new story like I did with Lovecraft Lovers, OR by bothering Gajeel Redfox into using thematic images related to what you wanted!

So, think of one theme and post it if you want! Be sure to check this link, and make sure that the Pokemon you want haven't been hunted before!

Currently we have 70 different themes, but you can always propose more!

About this month's options

Halloween's next month... So to celebrate I selected one of the FOUR themes that were suggested for November. The other two themes are selected from the whole bunch. No description this time because I'm so close to the time limit.

And these are the month's that I got using real random number:

- Witchy Things: Gothita, Hatenna, Purrloin. Proposed and named by Professor Eucalyptus.

- Carcinization: Corphish, Crabrawler, Clauncher. Just a bunch of little guys that take well to the cold.
Proposed, named AND nice description by iconoclasticGentleman.

- Gotta go Fast: Voltorb, Nincada, Carvanha. Proposed and named by Professor Eucalyptus.

So, which one will you choose and would like for us to promote? Be sure to vote in the poll!

I also can't stress this enough, but: Your participation is important, both in this pre-voting stage and in the actual voting stage! So, please, consider participating!

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER

This project is, by NO MEANS, replacing the official SWSH nor officially associated with it. This is just a COMMUNITY project that focuses on trying to organize future SWSHs to give them an extra flavor.
As such, I CANNOT and WILL NOT promise that the winning theme of this stage will be the official SWSH next month, but you can BET we'll do our best to make that come true! That's why your cooperation in voting for the winning theme is also encouraged.


And that's all. Now I'll just leave the official rules just to be in the same page. Catch you soon!

RULES

- Do NOT harass people into voting for what you want. Encouraging people is okay tho', so choose your words wisely.

For example, you shouldn't say things like: "DUCK THIS, VOTE FOR THE CLEARLY SUPERIOR X THEME!", "UGH, that theme is so LAME, EVERYONE should just vote for X". Things you could say: "Oh, I like X theme! Think of all the shenanigans we could create with it!", "This thread had my curiosity, but now X theme has my attention". Heck you could even go Hailey's route and go "VOTE FOR STUNFISK YOU COWARDS", though I would suggest adding a little smiley face (because they DO help to make your tone feel less inflammatory and friendlier) or "jk" at the end so everyone can understand it's, mostly, meant as a joke.

Basically I want to diminish the opportunity of people trying to throw shade at others and just bring negative emotions to the thread. Come on guys, we are all interested in hunts in here, we CAN find a way to coexist and help each other out!

- Regular forum rules apply! So don't double post, or don't ask for clicks every time your party's full again!

- Don't post your shinies here. Rather post them over here, since more people would be able to see them! ;D

- You wanna rage about something? We actually have a place where to vent any negative feeling you might have, so click on that link so you can go there and release some tension!

- Try not to use swear words! This is a feels-good space, y'all!

- Memes are PERFECT in here, BUT do remember that they can stretch the page, so if they are big or a lot of them, remember to spoiler them so it doesn't get too bad!

- Try not to make BIG quote pyramids! Why? Because of page stretching, of course!

- We love to talk around here, so if you wanna comment something, feel free to do so and evade SUPER short posts if possible.

This post has been edited by Rookie Roo: Oct 1 2022, 01:23 AM

[Rookie Roo]

FUTURE CHANGES TO THE PRE-POLL

In bullet points!

- Starting January's pre-poll, I'll open a fourth option for anyone to choose. This option is NOT a specific theme, but rather a "blank" option for whenever you don't want any of the offered themes.

- If the blank option gathers enough votes and wins, then we won't be encouraging people to vote for a specific trio the next SWSH month.

- That means that YOU won't have a guide to choose from, so you are free to just choose whatever! (Though, side note, remember that you ALWAYS have the choice to NOT vote, not on the pre-poll and of course not in the actual SWSH vote, but hey maybe this would help assure anyone who might've thought otherwise).

- So, in total, we'll have four options: 1 blank, 1 theme that was suggested for that particular month (let's call them "special" themes) if there is one, and 2 or 3 that were selected by real RNG.

- Special themes WON'T be locked to their specific month, but can be chosen for the poll IF RNG decided it. It's just that the month they are supposed to be selected makes them have a higher chance of being selected.

- Themes can only be selected ONCE per year. So when a theme "loses" against another, it will have a cool-down of a year until you can see them again.

- Special themes are exempted of this last rule ONLY in the month they were proposed for. Example: if a July theme was selected for the January pre-poll and lost, it would still be rolled for the special option on July and compete with any other special theme of that month, the winner taking the "Special option" of the pre-poll.

- A particular species of Pokemon WON'T appear twice in the options of a particular pre-poll. Example: Of the three possible themes to choose from, Magikarp will only appear in ONE of them. This is to avoid forcing one specific specie into the SWSH.

- A particular specie of Pokemon can only be selected once per THREE polls. For example: Magikarp appears in January's pre-poll, then ALL themes that had Magikarp will have a cooldown of three polls, which means that themes that had Magikarp will have the chance to reappear again until July's pre-poll. This way, I hope, we'll get more diversity in Pokemon species overall, which also encourages people to make themes of different Pokemon and not the most popular ones.

- The full roster of themes will be made public on an Excel spreadsheet so you can see which Pokemon have been proposed already so you can create more diverse themes! The spreadsheet will be shared on Discord (hopefully will get pinned by a mod in #gpx) and also with a link in the pre-poll topic.

- I'll also try to make the Real RNG process LIVE as much as I can, so if anyone wants to hop in and see what the process goes, you're free to do so. Unfortunately, I will only be alerting about this on Discord, and will try to do it on the last week of the SWSH month, alerting everyone the day prior. (This point being the one I'm kinda unsure about, given that sometimes I end up writing the pre-polls the day before the month is over due to real life things... Will try my best tho'!)

That said, these new "rules" might get small changes here and there depending on how they are working, 'cuz they MIIIIGHT be too restrictive... We'll see, we'll see. If you have any other suggestion tho', PLEASE let me know so I can bring it up with the community (mostly anyone that reads the #gpx channel on Discord) to discuss the idea, and to see how to implement that change!

Hopefully these changes make for better, more diverse pre-polls while also trying to cater to everyone!
Hope you enjoy them!

PS: If any rule seems hard to follow PLEASE let me know so I can look for another way to reword it so it makes more sense!

This post has been edited by Rookie Roo: Oct 1 2022, 07:04 AM