Forum polls? (in General)

1. Admin polls already exist, so we know polls are nice.
2. Shouldn't be too hard to implement.
3. You can see what the community thinks of a certain idea instead of trawling through about 400 posts of discussion.
4. Admins might enjoy being able to see EG: 95% of users voted support the AoJ change.
5. We already have "fun" or less serious polls (Girl or Boy. Eyesight poll)
6. There's always a silly option at the end of the admin polls :)

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Poll style! Yes/No. Explanation after your answer.

"2. Shouldn't be too hard to implement."

Admin polls only poll what the admin in question gives a turd about. Community poll options allow the COMMUNITY to weigh in on specific topics, which provides valuable feedback (if nothing else) to the top programmers. I say let polls be public.

Why not ask an admin to make a poll for you?


Hakai had asked me to make a poll about male / female players
dudemus I believe asked to make the current poll

Why the fuss? Just ask me and give me the details about the poll.

i have asked for many polls to be made over the years and as long as i sent the request to an active admin, they were always created with little fuss and in a timely manner.

Well I meant in regards to a certain change. I wouldn't think the admin would want to put a poll up to say "Did you like the recent change?"

Have you asked? And has this lack of a "feature" ever stopped people from announcing their disapproval?

Flamey: As long as the questions are reasonable and I don't get 10 requests a day, I don't think I'll mind setting up a poll every now and then, regardless the topic.

I haven't asked myself. I just thought it'd be nice to have. Sure I can ask an admin but with what I'm thinking there'd be a poll in half of the general threads as they all seem to be debating something. Mitt, see #3.

Shade, I'll keep that in mind :) How about a "Should we continue with the QB tradition?". It's always been brought up but never got everyone's attention at any one point that it came up.

If you want a poll, ask an admin. The polling features of this forum software were removed.