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Too Many Polls?
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Mitthrawnuruodo
Moderator emeritus
Absolutely. Only certain people should have the ability to make polls... they're being used now for topics of discussion that don't warrant it at all.
Saying that, they harm no-one. It's just that they rapidly become an irritant if used to excess.
Saying that, they harm no-one. It's just that they rapidly become an irritant if used to excess.
yankeefan24
macrumors 65816
Unorthodox
macrumors 65816
I agree.yankeefan24 said:
Vote! Vote! Vote!
Vote for this! Vote for that! Vote for that! Vote for what?!
This is a kinda bias poll....
Yes and defiantly?
What is the purpose of this poll?
Unorthodox
macrumors 65816
Dont Hurt Me
macrumors 603
Without a doubt, hey not to change the subject but with a new powermac coming you still have that bank vault concept?rdowns said:
Blue Velvet said:
Agreed. They should be reserved for demis, mods and/or people of a certain post status, sort of like we do for the Marketplace and the Politicals.
This happened before and the poll option was removed for several months. I think the current onslaught may be because the news threads have started including them.
they don't hurt anyone, but i'll agree that one should have a certain post count in order to gain the ability to create one.
Dont Hurt Me
macrumors 603
count chocula
macrumors 6502a
dmw007 said:
i'm not the only one who thought of it, vniow and BV both mentioned something similar.
i'd say maybe a 100 min if not more. this way someone gets to know the forum and such before getting this ability to create polls and hopefully the number of pointless and unnecessary polls would be cut down as a result.
i don't know, however, if this is possible with VBulliten, although i'm sure there is some way to achieve it.
njmac
macrumors 68000
I think there are threads that need a poll and don't have one. If you are asking people a question where there is a few choices I think having a poll is easier and can cut down spam.
If I see a poll where my opinion is one of the options, I can vote without commenting and move on. Everyone wins 🙂
If I see a poll where my opinion is one of the options, I can vote without commenting and move on. Everyone wins 🙂
mad jew
Moderator emeritus
Maybe there should be a separate part of the Community section, devoted to polls. That way we could easily remove them from our New Posts link, if we wanted. Of course, there are many other forums with polls, but it might cut the numbers back for people who don't want to see them so often. 🙂