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Subject: Lock Threads With Pointless Poll Options.

Have you noticed that every single thread with a poll always has that useless and completely redundant option that just derails the poll completely because everyone picks it in the hopes of looking funny?

EXAMPLE

What's better, iPod or Zune?

Option A: iPod

Option B: Zune

Option C: They're equal (this is an okay option to put in)

Option D: Neither. Choose a different one (This is also an okay option)

Option E: COOKIEZ!

As you can see, option E provides no help to the subject at hand, and is generally just spam. Can we start banning these kinds of threads with redundant poll options?

  • 06.26.2011 11:42 PM PDT

cars, girls & cake all day everyday

A ban? That's a little extreme...

  • 06.26.2011 11:44 PM PDT

PEANUT-BUTTER SLAP!

I don't see how that's important unless the entire poll is like that. As long as the discussion is on topic, what's the problem?

  • 06.26.2011 11:45 PM PDT


Posted by: Count Blinkula
A ban? That's a little extreme...

A lock...

Polls can provide a considerably good way to give a good representation of what the forum community thinks, and is really a nice feature. Of course, "clever" ten year olds just have to ruin it with their "comedy".

  • 06.26.2011 11:46 PM PDT

cars, girls & cake all day everyday

I agree. But it's not like those pointless options always completely derail the thread, unless they're all irrelevant.

While we're on the subject of polls; they could really use some re-doing, in my opinion. The topic of the poll not being rewritable is most likely something built into the forum software, but from what I know about forum software and web coding (very little) I don't think it's impossible to fix that.

[Edited on 06.26.2011 11:55 PM PDT]

  • 06.26.2011 11:51 PM PDT

Posted by: Great_Pretender
Case and point: don't worry about it. Girls start getting boobies pretty soon, and then you'll have plenty of other things to think about. Being an Inheritor is not a life goal.
-TGP-

I would have <7'd this thread if you put the poll options.
Yes
Yes
Maybe
Yes

No, that's a little extreme, we should just ban the people that pick the options.

  • 06.27.2011 12:46 AM PDT