Forum:Polls with 5x as many votes as active users?

In my time with Wikia, I've seen a fair amount of wikis in my time, from near dead ones, to pretty active ones. The inspiration for this forum topic is related to this.

Now, the main example is from the Street Fighter Wiki: see here, scroll down to see the poll has a massive 217 vote count (as of this comment). The active users aren't nearly this number, there's about 30 users active there. Also, on the DK Wiki (linked above), there's 18 voters (as of this comment), but the real only active users there are me, Megatron1, The Exterminator, and Fawfulfury65 (please feel free to join...).

...is there something I'm missing here...?  --Havoc  Reaper '48  23:10, June 9, 2010 (UTC)


 * Can't anonymous users respond to polls? Or maybe the poll is really old. -- Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 4:14 PM PST 9 Jun 2010


 * Uh, DK Wiki's Poll was made on June 5th, SFW's a day later. I hardly ever see IPs on the DK Wiki (the last IP I remember was the April Fool's vandal). Well, SFW I can understand more, but it's baffling to see how many people know enough about Street Fighter to cast a vote, yet hardly that many edit.  --Havoc  Reaper '48  23:41, June 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Anonymous users can vote in polls. Something that many people don't realize is that there are many times more people who view a wiki than those who edit it. Many times. Checking the statistics for streetfighter.wikia.com, I find that there are (approx.) 80,500 pageviews per month. That's where all the votes are coming from ;) 23:45, June 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Huh? Where'd you get 80K from? I don't see that on " Special: Statistics "?  --Havoc  Reaper '48  23:52, June 9, 2010 (UTC)
 * Quantcast.com. 23:54, June 9, 2010 (UTC)

Ok then...  --Havoc  Reaper '48  00:21, June 10, 2010 (UTC)