Halloween Contest - Coolest

Perhaps more people would have voted if it weren't a public poll.

Nope. Most people never look here. Forum events rank strongly as a "who cares" amongst our viewership.
This is why every time someone complains we don't do them and we try to do them again we get disappointed.

Look at their traffic after a week;

threadid	total	unique	users
60732	162	83	56
60733	164	85	59
60734	661	142	82

Compared to an extraction thread that's been up less than 12 hours;

threadid	total	unique	users
60787	775	395	125

Or the State of the Southperry thread that's only been a day longer than the votes and had equal treatment (tweeting, no force read);

threadid	total	unique	users
60716	4045	499	218

This sort of discouraging participation is what the Event Committee has to face and overcome to get people more interested and involved.