Escape Artists
Administrivia => Metachat => Topic started by: Thaurismunths on August 03, 2008, 12:07:29 AM
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Polls seem to be very popular, but they're hard to keep up with being scattered all over the forums.
Thoughts?
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On the other forum I frequent, there's a special area for polls. Not exclusively polls, but all polls seem to be in that particular subforum.
Most polls here seem to be in Gallimaufry, so I don't really see an issue.
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I think keeping polls where they are is reasonable enough. For the time being, the forums here are somewhat low traffic; thus the polls reflect the votes of those who are drawn to whatever topic they are posted under, which makes sense. Actually some way to see what polls I've voted in my profile would be nice, but as this seems to be a pre-set forum layout (Nathan Lowell has the identical layout for his forums board, which made me do a double take when I checked it out), I dont think that's possible.
As an aside, thanks to this thread, I found an entertaining feature I wasn't previously aware of.. if you click the profile tag, then click "show the general statistics" at the bottom you get some interesting stats. :)
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Even though I voted 'yes', I do agree with what Talia is saying here. It's okay to keep the polls between the other posts.
I do miss some polls however, because they are not evident enough in the post listing. It may help if the title of the polls had something like "Poll: ..." in them, so I would recognize them as they are meant to be.
The title of this Poll poll grabbed my attention and I knew immediately what was expected of me :]
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polls are fine where they are. they are really only in Gallimaufry at the moment, which seems as good of a place as any.
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polls are fine where they are. they are really only in Gallimaufry at the moment, which seems as good of a place as any.
A couple have shown up in the Pseudopod and Podcastle forums, but they've been about favorite stories.
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I think polls should be placed based on their content, just like any other post. If the author wants to highlight a poll to build participation, put "Poll" in the subject line.