Poll Pruning (Patreon)

I've been thinking a bit lately about the Parody and OC Polls and how there are some poll options that have just been hanging around for a long time. 

This is a result of the fact that when adding in new options each month, I always cut the options with the fewest votes from the previous month. Meaning that if an option isn't quite low enough on the list to get dropped, but also not high enough to ever win, its just going to sit there on the list forever. Some of the options have been on there for years at this point. 

I was thinking I would start to base my removal from the polls based on the age of a sketch. Eliminating the oldest sketches as I trim each month.

So, the way I see it there are a few options:

1) Cut sketches from the poll based on the previous month's votes. (the way it currently is)

2) Cut sketches based on how old they are.

3) A hybrid. Cut sketches based on how old they are, but make some sort of immunity from being cut if an option is popular, like if it is in the top 5.