User blog comment:Longguilol/Fairy Tail: Character's Battle Ratings/@comment-5274001-20120711225910/@comment-5274001-20120716214804

Guess work? It isn't really that hard to put a ballpark number on how many FT fans actually visit forums, as the number peaks right around when a new chapter comes out. Manga Fox's FT forum (being the most popular English forum on the internet), attracts around 200 FT fans when a new chapters is released.

Only a fraction of the actual FT fans bother with a forum/or creating with an account. The vast majority just read the chapter and head over to YouTube/Facebook/Other social media sites to do their thing.

300 votes is an ample number based on the above circumstances. You won't get even a 1000 votes if you let the polls on run for a full year.