Polls on this forum?

auhsor · Wed 21/05/2003 13:55:55

Yeah, are we able to have polls on these forums, or have they been disabled or something. Cos we got like the little pics down the bottom of the page that show that its possible.

I dont really have a need to create a poll, i'm just curious, you know.

Jimi · Wed 21/05/2003 13:59:08

I asked this a while ago. Apparently people abused them, and so Chris got rid of them.

auhsor · Wed 21/05/2003 14:20:20

Ok, fair enough

AndersM · Wed 21/05/2003 20:19:31

Well... Put the polls back, monitor them, and cut the balls
of those who abuses them with a rusty tablespoon.

That would teach them a lesson...

Raggit · Wed 21/05/2003 21:31:01

What if females abuse them???

Jimi · Wed 21/05/2003 21:37:32

what are you implying?

Scummbuddy · Wed 21/05/2003 22:05:18

hey jimi, i dont know if you know, but girls dont have balls

BOYD1981 · Wed 21/05/2003 22:08:20

polls would be good if only moderators were allowed to make them, otherwise people would start up stupid polls about anything and everything...

Scummbuddy · Wed 21/05/2003 22:10:47

I like that idea... and how about just in competitions and activities forum...

TheYak · Wed 21/05/2003 22:49:27

They could be useful in their place... in the critics lounge, competitions, feature requests for AGS so CJ could concentrate on the most desired features... just avoiding the gen forum so we don't have polls about which AGS'er has the sexiest backside (Mr. Colossal, of course..I've seen drawings).

MrColossal · Thu 22/05/2003 00:13:52

how could they be usefull? how often do people need to know the anonymous results of a poll here?

on critics lounge? not really, i think things are doing alright without them

in competitions? i don't really see the need for it, if you have a thread that needs to be voted on, just handle it in the thread

and seriously, since we already know which AGSer already has the sexiest backside... what else is there to poll?

eric

Evil · Thu 22/05/2003 00:17:13

frontside?

Raggit · Thu 22/05/2003 00:34:08

Quote from: evil on Thu 22/05/2003 00:17:13
frontside?

That'd be me.

Gilbert · Thu 22/05/2003 02:09:55

Ah well... don't get known faults started ever again...

TheYak · Thu 22/05/2003 02:19:54

Mr. C lives to argue with me. That twitty sod. I just envision a leading post for each compo that has a nice little graph showing the standings... easy to get the results that way, anonymous (no he voted for me, so I'll vote for him syndrome), and a beautiful thing to a statistician, general lover of numbers or those who merely like pretty colors. If such a graphing system isn't possible, then to hell with it I say.

Gilbert · Thu 22/05/2003 02:39:21

That unless we can guarantee it's not misused, there're some unhappy issues happened in the old forums...

Evil · Thu 22/05/2003 02:57:20

we could have it so that a mod must check the topic before it is posted...

MillsJROSS · Thu 22/05/2003 04:19:26

The polls were abused when they were in place. To say now that the community has matured past a point where those polls wouldn't be abused would be an utter lie.

HOWEVER (and I use capital letters for emphasis)

If frivilous polls were deleted immediatly by a moderator, then they could be useful. I don't think you could limit them to a certain forum become some polls might apply to a certain forum.

HOWEVER (another twist)

What poll isn't frivilous.

HOWEVER (twisty twisty)

If the poll does require anonymity, where knowing who votes for one option might, in turn, potentially hurt anothers feelings, I can then see their use.

HOWEVER

I really do see polls as pointless on these forums. The only thing I can see them being there are for a laugh, or if CJ wants to know what we think is more important on his "things to do" list. So really, CJ, should be the only one with this power. And if that doesn't convince you, then the fact that you can make your own poll slap it on a website, should make up for this. If a poll is that important to someone, you do not have to limit yourself to this message board.

The polls abuse forces more important discussion down. When they were in place there was a point where the page was literally filled with nothing but polls. And I'm sorry to those who thought that knowing what soda product was better was impertinent to this forum. None of the polls really had anything to contribute, and thus polls were removed. I think that if they were back in place that there use would go much the same way.

-MillsJROSS

Gilbert · Thu 22/05/2003 09:46:17

Heh no matter what the argument is, I'm in fact feeling a bit sorry about the abuse use of the poll function in the old forums, if I didn't make the suggestion to enable it in teh first place...

n3tgraph · Thu 22/05/2003 10:37:47

gah leave the polls away - you always get people who double post because they are at a compter at work, at home, at a friend's place, at the library

it just aint fair