Polls Forum Please

[Malorn]

Originally Posted by Sirisian

Oh thank you Malorn. Came here to post this exact thread. Hamma already knows how I feel about polls. Just get rid of polls altogether. Most of them are biased or missing explanations so no one knows what they're voting for. They also stifle the discussion by boxing in people when they reply.

I would agree with that. Polls often force people to make decisions before they even read the posts, which doesn't get you any sort of real information. Phrasing of the polls is rarely good and usually horribly biased so you don't get anything out of them. The only polls worth having are like faction polls and what not, and we already know the faction's are going to be very close.

Whether something is a good idea or not should stand on its merits and the quality of the idea, not what random forum idiots think of it. Like Elfailo's ADS discussion...would have been really terrible if he had a poll on it. Which is why I never create polls - ideas are not equal


If you want quality control on polls I think the only way would be to have a poster request a poll be created by the mods and put in the desired options and let the mods filter out the shitty polls and biased options. And they can make the call on whether the topic should even have a poll.

Quality of the forums has really gone downhill the last few weeks, stupid polls are one reason, though I think a lot of new people who are missing a lot of the tribal knowledge about the game that we've picked up over the months is another.