Do you have any questions or suggestions? Comment here! We'll get back to you as soon as we're able. You're also welcome to PM either of us.

Participation banners for rhye, samelthecamel, _morning_glow, musikurt and slumber can be found here.

I hope you all had a great Term, I know I did. :)

petit_rhino and I have decided to make banners for this term's most loyal animagus voters. Behind the cut I have banners for mmailliw, d_andru, beautifulbluee, and dragongirl3745. 5 more of you will get banners from Flo!

( Shinies! )

While I've got you here, I'd also like to let you know about the Animagus Registry. It lists all animagus forms that have been chosen here with links to the applicants' essays. It has been updated so that all inactive forms are once again grayed out (due to LJ wonkiness, the old HTML stopped working). Some people might find this list useful, so give it a peruse if you want!

Here’s a compilation of the results from this survey. Sorry, this came a little later than I would've wanted.

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Now what?
It’s great to know what people are thinking about the Animagus process, but the point is to actually improve it so that more people can enjoy it and participate. We also want to think through any changes, no point in change for the sake of it. Because this takes time and term XXII is coming to an end, we can’t promise you anything more for the end of the term, but Chelsea and I have compiled some information and ideas for the next mods about:
- A voting guide (a lot of you also posted comments with tips for new or confused voters),
- Advice for new applicants (making sure applications have relevant information for voters),
- A survey about the application form,
- Ideas on how to make a cheat sheet.

Congrats to _morning_glow & rhye who will be our new mods for Term XXIII!

Hey everyone,

Since Sara/ariake posted today that more applicants are needed for Animagus mod, I thought it would be a good time to tell you that both Flo and I will not be applying again for the position for term xxiii.

We both had a lot of fun working together and with you guys, but we won't be available the entire summer and think it would be unfair to step down partway through the term. We will, however, still be around Animagus/Wilderness, of course :D And Flo will update the visual registry again at the beginning of the term.

If you are thinking about applying for the position, please feel free to ask us any questions about it. We're here to help, and want to continue helping the communities evolve and cater to how YOU guys want them to be. Running Animagus and Wilderness has been a blast, so we hope some of you will consider applying to mod them next term!

Your mods,
Chelsea & Flo

In an effort to make the application and voting process run even more smoothly and to make it easier for applicants, voters and mods alike, we need to hear what you think about this!


Poll #1834919 Animagus application survey
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 23

How often do you vote?

Have you ever applied to be an Animagus

When you vote, what questions help you the most to find the right animal?

When you vote, what questions help you the least?

Why are the questions you checked above not helpful?

Any questions you would take out from the application? (refer to the numbered questions above)

In your mind what questions could use better wording?

What NEW questions would help us determine an applicant's personality?

What other questions would you add?

This is the last voting batch for Term XXII. We have only 3 applications for you today, as that's all that's left in the queue. We hope more of you consider applying for animagus forms next term.

( applications #568 - #570 )

Remember:
- IMPORTANT: Please vote @ the appropriate Applicants Thread using the provided textbox.
- Follow the voting guidelines.
- Remember to check if your pick has subspecies. If it does, specify a subspecies, just to be on the safe side!
- Especially remember to check that your animal choice has not already been claimed.
- Keep to the deadline! The time will always be given in UTC.
- Elaborate your vote (refer to the point scale in the voting guidelines) for the full 10 points per vote. Please use the vote checking thread if you'd like to be certain you receive the full points/knuts!

Get your votes in before April 29th at 2PM UTC/10AM EST.

I would like to thank you all for participating to the Animagus survey. Your answers have been plentiful and insightful, both from people who love voting and from people who just find it annoying. If you haven't yet participated to the poll, you can do so here.

There have also been great questions that we would do our best to answer.
If you have more questions for us, please do ask as we are planning to add to the existing FAQs (voting rules and applications).


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I hope this answers some of your questions. HiH Animagus is a wonderful little ecosystem, and we try to make things go as smoothly as possible and make the process fun for applicants, voters and mods alike.