Can we restrict availability of polls?

MarkyMarkD

But they were all started by you, with many thousands of posts to your credit.

My original point was that newbies are incapable of defining useful polls and hence shouldn't be allowed to set them.

That point still stands.

marleyboy

I disagree with you, who are you to dictate any newbies are in someway inferior or incapable of defining useful posts, I would say your post is JUST as incapable. If you dont like a users Poll or post, simply go to the next one, it isnt causing you any problems other than what appears to me to be a case of "sour grapes".

ixwood

Here's another example of a useful poll:-

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1264843

MarkyMarkD

marleyboy - I don't think you mean "sour grapes". I just don't like the forum to be filled up with rubbish - and that's what most newbie polls are.

Ixwood - your poll is an exact example of a non-useful poll. The question I asked wasn't whether polls should be banned outright - I don't agree that they should - but that newbies should be banned from posting polls themselves.

As with most bad polls, your poll doesn't include enough answers. And those which do include enough answers, should often allow multiple choices and the software isn't up to that.

If I was defining a poll - and I'm not because I don't care what the results of a poll show - it would say:

Should polls:

(a) be able to be started by every user irrespective of experience;
(b) be able to be started by every user irrespective of experience, but (for users who have posted less than 100 times) subject to approval by a board guide before voting is allowed ;
(c) be able to be started only by experienced users who have posted 100 times or more; or
(d) not be available at all.

Out of those choices I would vote (b) but only if the board guides had time to do the moderation and would block stupid polls and/or improve the answer choices.

gazza975526570

Id rather have a poll on can we restrict pointless threads - im sure those results would be much more positive!

tomstickland

Why didn't you do a poll?

globalds

You'll miss them when there gone

Soaring pay lures Poles back home

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7282923.stm


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