update on my subscribestar poll
after noticing voter numbers going up but voting percentages not scaling i did a test by voting myself with a spare account and asking a friend to do so as well, and after some back and forth with also turning the "weighted votes" setting on and off i figured out what it does.
it gives 8$ tier 8 points, 4$ tier 4 points and FREE tier 0 points
what i thought it did was act as a tie-breaker or adding 1 more point to paid tier or something similar, but the way it works is very unbalanced and not what i wanted at all.
so, since i want everyone to have a vote and give paid tiers a bit extra, i will re-do the poll and make it two polls, a free one and a paid one, giving paid tiers an extra point they can put towards the same or different result.
apologies for the confusion, but now i know, and hopefully if anyone wants to use polls as well this post can inform on how they work ^-^