Comment on How do I create a Poll in the Forum?
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I think when a post is moved into the FAQ area as, this one was, that normal users do not have rights to comment or reply. I am not seeing any reply boxes and so will do so here.
I don’t think polls would be useful in an environment where only one person’s vote matters and also that person has never seemed persuaded by the numbers of people with an opinion on a topic.
Plus, polls don’t seem effective when there are few people. In the last 24 hours seven user accounts have signed into the Notepad++ forum system. Presumably, they would be the only ones that would ever see a poll.
I believe it would be better to develop persuasive arguments for or against a position or idea.
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@mkupper said in Comment on How do I create a Poll in the Forum?:
In the last 24 hours seven user accounts have signed into the Notepad++ forum system.
That was 7 new users in 24 hours. There have actually been about 50 different users logged in during that time period
I don’t think polls would be useful in an environment where only one person’s vote matters
That one person has said many times, “let’s wait and see if there are other people who want it” (and then sometimes closes the issue, so that it’s less visible to said people).
I understand there won’t be large numbers of people voting… but my guess is that there will be more “random” users who can at least see it than people who will put in the effort to create a GitHub account just to upvote or me-too an existing (possibly-closed) issue.
And my implementing polls wasn’t solely for trying to add numerical weight for elsewhere. I also thought it might provide an interface for doing things on the Community end, maybe adding “fun” to the Community occasionally, or for offering feedback on Community-related stuff.
As I implied, it’s still in experimental mode; if it’s abused, it will definitely be disabled; if it just doesn’t show much interaction besides “the regulars”, then it will likely be ignored, and fall by the wayside.
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@mkupper said in Comment on How do I create a Poll in the Forum?:
I don’t think polls would be useful in an environment where only one person’s vote matters
As a plugin author, I might consider using a poll to decide what features to add to a plugin, or how to implement a feature.
There are other ways to do this (raising a GitHub issue and instructing people to vote by responding to the original post with thumbs-up and thumbs-down emojis, for example), but there’s definitely something to be said for less hacky solutions like the polls this forum offers.
