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How often do you read a story's dept. line?

Displaying poll results.
What dept line?
  20% 32 votes
Less than 10% of the time
  23% 38 votes
About 25% of the time
  10% 16 votes
About 50% of the time
  8% 14 votes
About 75% of the time
  7% 12 votes
90% or more of the time
  12% 20 votes
Thanks to this poll I can't ignore the dept line any more, you insensitive clod!
  14% 23 votes
Don't Know/Other - Specify
  3% 5 votes
160 total votes.
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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2015, @01:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2015, @01:02PM (#202057)

    "This resource is no longer valid. Please return to the beginning and try again."

    • (Score: 2) by martyb on Saturday June 27 2015, @02:13PM

      by martyb (76) on Saturday June 27 2015, @02:13PM (#202067) Journal

      I got the same error when trying to submit a vote as an Anonymous Coward, but was successful when I voted earlier as a logged-in user. There were some coding changes made to the site to handle quoted text to avoid XSS issues. I just updated the poll to avoid that being a problem.

      Original question:

      How often do you read a story's "from the something-something dept." line?

      New version:

      How often do you read a story's dept. line?

      Let's see if that makes a difference.

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      • (Score: 2) by martyb on Saturday June 27 2015, @02:24PM

        by martyb (76) on Saturday June 27 2015, @02:24PM (#202071) Journal

        Additional info: current hypothesis is that logged-in users can vote, but not ACs. Just tried voting as an AC and got the error message "This resource is no longer valid. Please return to the beginning and try again.". Then I logged in as another user, voted for '75%' choice, and I see that the vote *was* recorded. Vote total is now at 4. At the moment, these have been selected, once each: 10%, 50%, 75%, and the 'Thanks to this poll'

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        • (Score: 2) by martyb on Saturday June 27 2015, @02:33PM

          by martyb (76) on Saturday June 27 2015, @02:33PM (#202074) Journal

          Curiouser and curiouser... logged off from above acct, tried again to vote, and saw that the vote was recorded:

          "Your vote (8) has been registered."

          For what it's worth, at this point there was a cookie established for that session.

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          Wit is intellect, dancing. I'm too old to act my age. Life is too important to take myself seriously.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2015, @03:09PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2015, @03:09PM (#202080)

            Same here. Vote failed. Logged-in/out and the vote went through. On mobile if that matters.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2015, @08:45PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 27 2015, @08:45PM (#202215)

            AC with cookies and scripts blocked, and I guess it worked. I voted, got no error, and was sent to this comment page. But, I did not look at the counts before voting, so don't know if it was counted.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @08:27AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @08:27AM (#202689)

              Another AC with full blocking. I got no error, but my vote was not registered. On second try, however, it was.

        • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @02:54AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @02:54AM (#202317)

          Obviously the right wingers are trying to steal another election.

          • (Score: 3, Touché) by Freeman on Monday June 29 2015, @09:21PM

            by Freeman (732) on Monday June 29 2015, @09:21PM (#203007) Journal

            Is that why Obama got elected. Twice . . .

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        • (Score: 2) by darnkitten on Tuesday June 30 2015, @04:51PM

          by darnkitten (1912) on Tuesday June 30 2015, @04:51PM (#203368)

          Oddly enough, on the old green site, I was only able to see the polls as an AC--the moment I logged in, the poll disappeared.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @07:17AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @07:17AM (#203213)

      OP here again. Now it said that my vote was registered. No JavaScript, no cookies.

      So everything is well in the kingdom once again! Kudos & thanks.

  • (Score: 1, Redundant) by CortoMaltese on Saturday June 27 2015, @07:20PM

    by CortoMaltese (5244) on Saturday June 27 2015, @07:20PM (#202191) Journal

    from the so-meta dept.

  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by LoRdTAW on Saturday June 27 2015, @09:22PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Saturday June 27 2015, @09:22PM (#202225) Journal

    If you want to rid your selves of the department line then fell free to do so. I never paid any real attention to it on /. and neither do I here.

    • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @03:45AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 28 2015, @03:45AM (#202329)

      > fell free to do so

      ~THUD!~

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by stormwyrm on Sunday June 28 2015, @12:03PM

    by stormwyrm (717) on Sunday June 28 2015, @12:03PM (#202406) Journal
    I used to read it all the time on the old site and am a bit disappointed to not see it on all articles here. It is, I imagine, a homage to the "Dept." lines in Mad Magazine, e.g. "Joke and Dagger Dept." for Spy vs. Spy, "Berg's Eye View Dept." for "Lighter Side Of" (by Dave Berg), "Don Martin Dept." for Don Martin's crazy cartoons, and so forth. The line has been used on the other site and here as well to do wordplays just as the Dept. lines were used in Mad.
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    • (Score: 2) by frojack on Monday June 29 2015, @09:08PM

      by frojack (1554) on Monday June 29 2015, @09:08PM (#203005) Journal

      I've always wondered who adds those. Thought it was maybe automated.
      Does it take actual brain cells, or requires extra editor caffeine?

      I would have a hard enough time being civil, let alone clever on story after story of political rants.

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      • (Score: 2) by CoolHand on Tuesday June 30 2015, @11:15AM

        by CoolHand (438) on Tuesday June 30 2015, @11:15AM (#203269) Journal
        It's the only fun we editors get to have...
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by DarkMorph on Sunday June 28 2015, @08:34PM

    by DarkMorph (674) on Sunday June 28 2015, @08:34PM (#202494)
    Is it a coincidence that this poll is posted when the article on the car navigation system is posted without a department line?

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Snotnose on Monday June 29 2015, @01:02AM

    by Snotnose (1623) on Monday June 29 2015, @01:02AM (#202566)

    Is it that icon on the right with labels like Hardware, Techonomics, etc? Or something else?

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    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @01:10PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 29 2015, @01:10PM (#202765)

      It's that small bold line below the "posted by" line below the story title. For example, in this article [soylentnews.org] it reads:

      from the all-the-way-down dept.

  • (Score: 2) by sudo rm -rf on Monday June 29 2015, @01:53PM

    by sudo rm -rf (2357) on Monday June 29 2015, @01:53PM (#202797) Journal

    I almost never read the dept. line, but I like the feature.
    Almost as much as the X-Bender Header!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @07:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @07:58PM (#203467)

    I only read between the lines

  • (Score: 2) by istartedi on Wednesday July 01 2015, @04:17AM

    by istartedi (123) on Wednesday July 01 2015, @04:17AM (#203620) Journal

    As a user, I would have no problem with the developers making it optional. There's no need to delete it entirely, just check to see if the poster put a string in the box, and display a department if they did. It looks like you might already have done that, as I see one story on the front page without it.

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