What? Tim announces in Feb 1st that some big event related to sinking the islands, and that the increased monster spawn is related to that. Four days later I start a poll on two islands asking only "North or South?". Do you honestly think that people didn't connect the poll to the "T Minus 28 Days" event? Hell, some people even posted ideas that were exactly correct as to what the poll was about. .
In the thread you link to, only one person raised the possibility that it was connected to the sinking. Others asked for clarification on what they were meant to be voting on, expressed a preference for one end of the island based on the realms (or lack of them), and one said linking it to the sinking would be deceiving the playerbase. There's nothing there to support the argument that the bulk of voters "really" (wink, wink) knew what they were voting on. The majority of the replies indicate the opposite to be true. Maybe if the poll had been launched by Tim, it would have been different.
