@kino Personally, I don't care who gets what as long as they do a good job at it. JNC is convenient and fast and doesn't seem to like dropping projects, but they aren't the only publisher.
Like I said, if you want to see this published by a specific publisher, getting others to jump on it is helpful. Appealing to people is a good way to do that. Granted, getting enough supporters to make a publisher go: 'Yep, we are definitely grabbing this' is probably not going to happen, but raising support for a series so a publisher that might see the thread would go, "Oh, it looks like these people not only really want this, but will probably actually buy it" will give them a reason to consider it beyond just metrics.