Do you like the "Poll" forum feature?

[Erasculio.2914]

The poll! The poll! Answer the poll! :3 :p ;) :/ :s B) <3

[Mea.5491]

Forum polls are fun, but they can be inaccurate because only a small part of the playerbase votes on them.

[Ayumi Spender.1082]

I'm picking other only because I truly completely honestly like it to death.

I just can't pick the 1st option because that "L" word is in there.

 

Can't pick the 2nd option as I've not seen a poll I've really didn't like. Just maybe those I find stupid/silly/idiotic like the few I've seen on "Do you like the last balance?" and the options being something like "No." "Hell no." "There was a patch?" "I like bacon." or something.

Can't really call them annoying. Just childish and not worth wasting time thinking on.

[Danikat.8537]

Sometimes it's useful, sometimes it's fun. And if it is a bad poll it's no worse than bad topics which have always existed and probably always will.

[Manasa Devi.7958]

I'd like them better if it were possible to make polls allowing multiple answers.

[Linken.6345]

No to many polls

[Martnor.1746]

I like the system although some people are really abusing it by creating polls about anything.

[maddoctor.2738]

Polls that are used to gather information are fine, although the sample is too small to get conclusive results of any kind.

But I hate Petitions disguised as polls. "Arenanet you should do _this_ because my poll said so"

[Shirlias.8104]

> @"Linken.6345" said:

> No to many polls

 

This is the current situation.

And also many of them do not have proper options.

 

I tend to make 3 option polls like yes, no, other, but some players tende to use all 10 slots for nothing. And some other players tende tp spam many polls.

 

Howerver it does not harm at all...It's slightly dispersive. That’s all.

[Lonami.2987]

> @"Manasa Devi.7958" said:

> I'd like them better if it were possible to make polls allowing multiple answers.

 

Same here, I wish there were more options than 10, and that there were multiple-option polls, like choose 3 from a list, and stuff like that.

[Leo G.4501]

I don't like when people try to use polls as evidence, which is why I don't vote in them. If people never took them seriously, I might vote on polls, but posters were siting poll numbers with regards to the whole mount skin controversy as if it actually meant something.

[RoseofGilead.8907]

I did until the poll spam started. :p

[Illconceived Was Na.9781]

On the whole, I think it's distracting for people. People use it to push points of view or as if it can establish a sense of what the community is thinking. I can't imagine that anyone would care that much if the new forums never included polls and I don't think anyone would remember in six months if polls were disabled entirely today.

 

They work best for fluff questions ("how many map completions" or "how old") and most misused for serious questions ("who wants ANet to give us something for free, without reducing any of the other things we get?")

 

I usually don't pick a response because most of the time, they options are misleading. This poll falls into the 'fluff' category quite nicely, along with its tongue-in-cheek options.

 

[notebene.3190]

Clearly this poll is misleading.

[IndigoSundown.5419]

Polls have certainly provoked discussion. The forums have been boring post Mountgate, so I view provoking discussion as a good thing.