My apologies it’s taken so long to respond. I’ve had difficulty getting internet access in the past several days. Looking back over this thread, I am afraid that we both have grown uncivil to the point of mindkilling, so I’m just going to stop talking about the original topic here.
Your point about the difficulty of finding polls is well taken. Even a poll one click away from the discussion section is not going to be seen by everyone who may be interested in the topic. In that case, the obvious thing to do is to not make polls in the comments of posts. If we do want to get a summary of the community’s opinion, the poll should be its own post. Making it a top level post seems to me a bit too excessive, so I think making polls out of discussion posts would be better.
I was tempted to post a poll here asking whether we wanted to generally adopt that policy, but I think I’d find it funnier than most other people would.
My apologies it’s taken so long to respond. I’ve had difficulty getting internet access in the past several days. Looking back over this thread, I am afraid that we both have grown uncivil to the point of mindkilling, so I’m just going to stop talking about the original topic here.
Your point about the difficulty of finding polls is well taken. Even a poll one click away from the discussion section is not going to be seen by everyone who may be interested in the topic. In that case, the obvious thing to do is to not make polls in the comments of posts. If we do want to get a summary of the community’s opinion, the poll should be its own post. Making it a top level post seems to me a bit too excessive, so I think making polls out of discussion posts would be better.
I was tempted to post a poll here asking whether we wanted to generally adopt that policy, but I think I’d find it funnier than most other people would.