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Community Health Check - Seeing What People Are Thinking

posted by NCommander on Tuesday November 17 2015, @10:32AM   
from the prevention-goes-a-long-way dept.

So, every once in awhile, if things have been quiet, I like to pop a post seeing what the general feelings of the community are towards the site, seeing what we could do better, etc. I think its been a few months since the last time I posted in Meta, so I think this is a good time to get a pulse on the community, and provide a venue to get any feedback (good or bad).

On the staff side, I know things have been relatively quiet over the summer due to most of us being busy with life and such, which is why we haven't made a major site upgrade since the original rehash upgrade at the end of May. For myself, I've been working at a new job, and dealing with a fair bit of non-Soylent related things to the point that I really only have the time or energy to post, and occasional check in, and I'd like to thank the rest of the staff, and mrcoolbp in particular for holding down the fort for me.

Anyway, in contrast to my usual posts, I'm going to cut this off here, and will be looking forward to your comments below.

73 from NCommander

• moar polls moar polls (Score: 4, Insightful) by rob_on_earth on Tuesday November 17 2015, @12:27PM

  by rob_on_earth (5485) on Tuesday November 17 2015, @12:27PM (#264290) Homepage

  is there a submission queue for polls?

  other than the lack of polls this site is fore filling all my needs.

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• Re:moar polls (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday November 17 2015, @12:49PM

  by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday November 17 2015, @12:49PM (#264298) Homepage

  I think you can just submit polls in story submissions, and the editors will bubble them into the poll system when they see fit.
  I also would like to see more polls. Some can be deep, some can be nerdy, some can be techy, some can be just for laughs, I don't care. If they change quickly, it doesn't matter if a duff one comes along, as it will be gone soon.

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• Re:moar polls (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday November 17 2015, @12:50PM

  by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday November 17 2015, @12:50PM (#264299) Journal

  I think you just submit the poll as plain text and we make it for you.

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• Re:moar polls Re:moar polls (Score: 3, Insightful) by WizardFusion on Tuesday November 17 2015, @12:51PM

  by WizardFusion (498) on Tuesday November 17 2015, @12:51PM (#264300) Journal

  Agreed, the polls are very lacking. Although I realise coming up with new poll ideas can be hard.

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  • Re:moar polls Re:moar polls (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2015, @01:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 17 2015, @01:04PM (#264305)

    Are the polls currently lacking?

    • Of course!
    • Absolutely!
    • Yes!
    • No doubt!
    • Funny option!

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    • Re:moar polls (Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday November 17 2015, @03:21PM

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Tuesday November 17 2015, @03:21PM (#264367) Journal

      I've submitted quite a few over the last few months and they have all been rejected.

      Sure, they were stupid as hell but that's what polls are for!
       
      Maybe we could get that much-discussed feedback mechanism for submissions working? For all I know I've just been putting them in the wrong place.

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