If you guys did not know this poll came from the Twitch Plays Pokemon which is basically a Pokemon game on twitch streamed so that you can play Pokemon with a lot of other people by typing commands into chat. That is were the a, b, up, down, left, rigth, select (not in poll), and start button came from. Anarchy mode is the "classic" mode, where everyone's inputs are applied immediately. Democracy mode chooses the most popular input provided during a 20 second voting period. In order to switch from one mode to the other a certain number of votes (by typing in democracy or anarchy) must be for the opposing mode. To get from anarchy mode to democracy mode 80% of the votes must be for democracy mode. To get from democracy mode to anarchy mode 50% of the votes must be for anarchy mode. The reason for this asymmetry is that with the equal 75% it took a smaller majority to disrupt democracy mode then it did to reinstate anarchy mode. In democracy mode you can compile a sequence of inputs. left2 will move left twice, left2down2 will move left twice and down twice.
I wonder how many people who voted actually even know what this voting poll is referencing.
TWITCH PLAYS POKEMON WAS FINALLY BEATEN TODAY! 16 days and over hundreds of thousands of gamers randomly playing at the same time over that period. Impressive.