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The Good: my item survived the cull, though I'm yet to see it myself.
The Bad: it may not survive all the snark against it that suddenly started popping up in the snark thread :)
{hugs} Sorry. I'm snarky by nature, and I snark about many items that I like and upvote. I'm sure part of it is my tiredness, and part of it is likely the uncertain fate of my own item niggling at me.

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flykiller wrote:I'm feeling you there. ^u^;The Good: my item survived the cull, though I'm yet to see it myself.
The Bad: it may not survive all the snark against it that suddenly started popping up in the snark thread :)
I still haven't seen my item yet nor have I seen any snark which may be related to it so I think I'm in a worse off position for the next cull :P

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Thanks for the support and hugs :)
I've seen my item twice in a short time period now. Does it mean that it's receiving less votes post-cull? Or it's completely random as long as a single viewer is concerned?
Because I am just happy I survived the first cull, I am going to say that it is probably completely random.

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Do we know the overall survival rate ? This could help us guess when the next cull will happen ;-)
I put some simple count formulas in the spreadsheet yesterday - eventually the number of items found post cull will level off, and we can just do a simple percentage. I am interested to see how many got lopped off with the first cull.

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I think we need to consider the whole DQ+Cull percentage, as this was the target number the host likely aimed for. And I believe the number of votes was sufficiently high that we can rely on the time needed for the first cull to extrapolate the time needed for the second cull.
We started from 700 items, we are now around 550 items post-cull and I believe we will finish a bit over 100 at the end of the voting. Not sure how it translates in the time required for the next cull though.

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I think we need to consider the whole DQ+Cull percentage, as this was the target number the host likely aimed for. And I believe the number of votes was sufficiently high that we can rely on the time needed for the first cull to extrapolate the time needed for the second cull.
We started from 700 items, we are now around 550 items post-cull and I believe we will finish a bit over 100 at the end of the voting. Not sure how it translates in the time required for the next cull though.
I think they have to leave enough items up that the people who are left can't reliably vote for their own items. So 100 would be too low, I would think.

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I think we need to consider the whole DQ+Cull percentage, as this was the target number the host likely aimed for. And I believe the number of votes was sufficiently high that we can rely on the time needed for the first cull to extrapolate the time needed for the second cull.
We started from 700 items, we are now around 550 items post-cull and I believe we will finish a bit over 100 at the end of the voting. Not sure how it translates in the time required for the next cull though.
I just ran a couple of models, and I believe the final cuts will get us down to between 200 and 300 items. My gut tells me it will be right in the middle of that range around 250.

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Although I have been trying to avoid obsessively rechecking the list since the cull, the later into the day it gets the more I fear my item was pulled. I wasn't exactly expecting to place, but to think it it was fazed out so quickly does sting a bit.
Still, I can't wait to discuss my favorites as soon as its all said and done. :)

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If it has an X in column E, then it has been seen since the cull.
If column E is blank, then it has not been seen by any of the contributors since the cull. It *may* have survived, but the chances of that are growing smaller.

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Although I have been trying to avoid obsessively rechecking the list since the cull, the later into the day it gets the more I fear my item was pulled. I wasn't exactly expecting to place, but to think it it was fazed out so quickly does sting a bit.
Still, I can't wait to discuss my favorites as soon as its all said and done. :)
I can honestly claim to may have created the worst item in rpg superstar history (goblin pictograms eat stuff good, 2014, a tome on goblin eating habits). Look at it this way, at least you're not reading the snark thread and realising you're the number one topic of conversation.
It hurts.
But it only hurts for a little while. You find afterwards that your skin is thicker and your ears better at listening. Those are good things.

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Mirari wrote:Although I have been trying to avoid obsessively rechecking the list since the cull, the later into the day it gets the more I fear my item was pulled. I wasn't exactly expecting to place, but to think it it was fazed out so quickly does sting a bit.
Still, I can't wait to discuss my favorites as soon as its all said and done. :)
I can honestly claim to may have created the worst item in rpg superstar history (goblin pictograms eat stuff good, 2014, a tome on goblin eating habits). Look at it this way, at least you're not reading the snark thread and realising you're the number one topic of conversation.
It hurts.
But it only hurts for a little while. You find afterwards that your skin is thicker and your ears better at listening. Those are good things.
That wasn't even close to the worst. Yours at least stayed around long enough for us to comment on it. There were others...
....I promised myself I wouldn't go there again...
*shudders*

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