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What are the best types of polls?
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- Don't complain about lack of options. You've got to pick a few when you do multiple choice. Those are the breaks.
- Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. I'd strongly suggest reading the past polls first.
- This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.
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(Score: 2) by mendax on Friday August 01 2014, @11:20PM
My favorite kinds of Poles are Chopin and Madam Curie. Oh, wait..... you mean POLLS? Never mind.
Let's confuse things even more and follow that vein: The only good pol [wikipedia.org] is a dead pol.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 1) by skater on Tuesday August 05 2014, @01:24PM
I like a good Festivus pole.
(Score: 2) by Appalbarry on Saturday August 02 2014, @01:15AM
Yes, I vote for Poll Dancing!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday August 03 2014, @01:38PM
If you are female and relatively good looking, then I will watch!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 1) by jelizondo on Monday August 04 2014, @02:46AM
Beware ignorant disbeliever!
You are making fun of ancient rituals revealed first to man in the ancient Sumerian empire to celebrate Ninkasi and later adapted to celebrate other gods and goddesses, but always in solemn manner.
When you watch the pole dancing without proper initiation, the Ancient Ones send punishment in the guise of headaches and stomachaches; if your trespass is major, then pustules appear in your genital area. Beware!
Do not make fun of the Ancient Ones!
For proper initiation and fees, please contact me.
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Saturday August 02 2014, @01:42AM
Almost as good as recursion recursion recursion recursion recursion recursion recursSegmentation Fault
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @03:49PM
Ah, I see, you've not implemented tail recursion elimination. ;-)
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Saturday August 02 2014, @03:33PM
Half the time I like serious polls, the other half I like silly polls. The remaining half of the time I like serious polls that provide one or two silly answers.
s/polls/pols/ works fine too.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 1) by Dogeball on Saturday August 02 2014, @04:28PM
The best polls make me curious about what others voted, and why.
This usually means that the topic is something I'm interested in (so site community interests), but have no idea how the split of opinion would lie.
If the outcome is too predictable, then it's boring. Same for if it spurs one-dimensional debate - the debate is mostly why I bother voting!
Humor is good as an added bonus to an otherwise interesting poll :)
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Sunday August 03 2014, @03:50AM
Nicely said. I voted for serious polls on any topic, as around here, the best sort of humour just seems to happen. No need to push with (frequent) silly polls, although I'm not above the occasional one either.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday August 03 2014, @01:41PM
Can I change my vote to 75% serious, 20% funny and 5% bacon?
Yes, you are right... even the serious ones seem to bring out the humour in people... +1 vote for you! :)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Monday August 04 2014, @03:28PM
So, I see you're voting 80% serious and 20$ funny. Around here, we take bacon seriously.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @03:51PM
20$ funny? I only accept serious dollars! :-)
(Score: 2) by DECbot on Monday August 04 2014, @05:29PM
As soon as I hit submit, I saw my mistake and I knew I would be told about it. I briefly considered fixing it, but I doubt the admins here at SN would like me mucking around in their database.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday August 04 2014, @07:11PM
I'll see your 20$ funny and raise you to 40$ milk through the nose!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Sunday August 03 2014, @07:18PM
You missed off the option for whatever poll Cowboy Neal takes seriously, you insensitive clod!
Also, in Soviet Russia, poll laugh at YOU.
"rancid randy has a dialogue with herself[...] Somebody help him!" -- Anonymous Coward.
(Score: 1) by Anonymous Cowherd on Sunday August 03 2014, @09:37PM
Polls that lead to some kind of insight into the community are my favourite kind. A recent example from the website-that-we-shall-not-mention-by-name was about assembling a computer. I did not expect a result which said a third of the demographic had assembled one in the past year. It says a lot about the community and helps embrace it better.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday August 04 2014, @01:27PM
I think clusters of hobbies are interesting.
Most ham radio guys have at least dabbled in photography. Strange but true, over half according to a survey I saw a long time ago. This was before everyone had smartphones with built in crappy specs camera, I'm talking about "real" photography.
Probably not insightful that most people here have played DnD or a DnD themed RPG or read Tolkien.
Kind of in between insightful and not is I bet there's a lot of grognards here and most of us know it.
Where it gets interesting / insightful is I bet a lot of people here built plastic models either as a kid or adult or even last night. I built a Stug assult gun (basically an uparmored tank) a couple years back because it was my favorite tank in a strategic hex based war game I used to play. I remember as a kid plastic model kits were fairly cheap like a couple hours of my minimum wage salary. Oddly enough, when I go to the hobby store, now that I make large integer multiple of my teen-era minimum wage, kits are still an integer multiple of my now much higher hourly pay rate. WTF Tamiya, your kits are higher quality than ever, but three figures for one model is getting a bit expensive! Paints aren't cheap either, although they're better than when I was a kid. 80s era acrylic paints pretty much sucked, but they're downright usable now. The only thing that's constant or cheaper is I think Chinese airbrushes are actually cheaper in nominal terms than American made or Japanese air brushes from the 80s, although I don't have figures. Also since I was a kid the new fad is selling "non-toxic" plastic cements that don't work. Although alternative cements are cheaper. I don't think plastic models are an affordable hobby to today's kids, which is too bad, although I can still afford them for myself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04 2014, @07:30PM
Interesting though about groupings...and /b/ro's here?
(Score: 2) by Foobar Bazbot on Monday August 04 2014, @04:14AM
I prefer polls with more than 8 options, you insensitive clod!
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday August 04 2014, @01:17PM
Yes powers of two, definitely.
(Score: 1) by no-s on Monday August 04 2014, @05:42PM
online polls are bogus. Best to stick with silly ones.