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Subject: Why cant we change the title of polls?

"At the end of this day one shall stand, one shall fall"

So, Death or Bungie?

Is it a glitch they cant fix or is Bungie just being mean?

  • 02.02.2012 12:19 PM PDT

Shenanigans... would ensue.

  • 02.02.2012 12:20 PM PDT
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It's not a glitch and Bungie isn't being mean.

In fact, one second...

Here, you should of read this when you made your poll:
Poll Question (will override your subject field, cannot be edited, so get it right)

  • 02.02.2012 12:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: chotato
smart, interesting, seems out of place.


Official fan of Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, (Problem with that?) Halo, and Bungie, also a total gaming junkie.

BAD things would happen. Same reason you can't change poll options.

  • 02.02.2012 12:26 PM PDT

"At the end of this day one shall stand, one shall fall"

So, Death or Bungie?


Posted by: Izak609
It's not a glitch and Bungie isn't being mean.

In fact, one second...

Here, you should of read this when you made your poll:
Poll Question (will override your subject field, cannot be edited, so get it right)
"will override your subject field" i dont know what that means. It could always be Bungie making an excuse.

  • 02.02.2012 12:27 PM PDT

Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth, you'd get a lot of free games.

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.


Posted by: Septagon7th

Posted by: Izak609
It's not a glitch and Bungie isn't being mean.

In fact, one second...

Here, you should of read this when you made your poll:
Poll Question (will override your subject field, cannot be edited, so get it right)
"will override your subject field" i dont know what that means. It could always be Bungie making an excuse.


It means that instead of displaying the thread title in the forum (like it used to do). The poll title is the thread title.

  • 02.02.2012 12:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: Septagon7th
"will override your subject field" i dont know what that means. It could always be Bungie making an excuse.

I was simply stating that it is not a glitch and you should of heeded the given warning.

If you don't know, the subject field is also known (for normal topics) as the subject, topic, topic's title, subject line. When creating a poll, there is a box to write the subject, although there's another one to give the poll question. What I quoted merely states that they have made it so that the question will override the subject line and name the topic accordingly, and that you may not edit your question in the future.


I don't know, but if I was to give you a good reason, I'd say that the Web Team doesn't allow users to change the poll question and options so as to not tamper with the given data.

Think science. You have your independent and dependent variables. The question and answers are your independent variables; any change to them could have an unusual effect on the statistics you receive from your poll (the dependent variable). If you change the poll while it's still being recorded, it's much like if a scientist changed his experimental procedure and recorded his data as if nothing has changed, the data would have been corrupted, even if there is no noticeable difference.

  • 02.02.2012 12:53 PM PDT

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Posted by: Ktan Dantaktee
BAD things would happen. Same reason you can't change poll options.
This.
If you've used the Flood forum, you'd understand.

  • 02.02.2012 1:45 PM PDT

Have you seen my mind anywhere? I seem to have lost it...

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I have seen you future

The original poll:

Do you like Bungie?

New poll:

Do you want to... (use your imagination, the horrible possibilities are endless)?

  • 02.02.2012 1:49 PM PDT

GGGGGGggggggggggggGGGG

People could basically choose how the results of a poll go.

Example:
Is COD a good game?
Yes:23 votes
No: 234 votes


(OP is a fan of COD, so changes the question)

Do you think COD is actually a bad game?
Yes:23 votes
No:234 votes

  • 02.02.2012 2:44 PM PDT
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13.72 billion years in the making.

On December 1st, 2012, I met Neil deGrasse Tyson. I shook the man's hand, and even made him laugh. Not much else to do with my life now.

The poll could start as "Do you have any pets?"


The OP could then change the title to "Do you ever eat your own poop?"

  • 02.02.2012 2:47 PM PDT

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Tomfoolery would arise.

  • 02.02.2012 2:49 PM PDT

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Posted by: Septagon7th
Is it a glitch they cant fix or is Bungie just being mean?

Obvious answer, OP. Use your head before stating this in a clear dichotomy.

  • 02.02.2012 2:56 PM PDT

Posted by: WinyPit82
The poll could start as "Do you have any pets?"


The OP could then change the title to "Do you ever eat your own poop?"

Indeed.

The problem here is obviously that everyone has eaten their own poop at one time or another, whereas only really gross people have pets. We wouldn't want to insult poop eaters by associating them with pet owners through a retroactively edited poll.

  • 02.02.2012 3:04 PM PDT

I don't see you doing anything to help our country.
Except sitting at home, naked, eating twinkies, rubbing your hands together going "Heh. Target Destroyed. Mission Accomplished." Oh wait. that's not helping.


Posted by: Demerzel
Posted by: WinyPit82
The poll could start as "Do you have any pets?"


The OP could then change the title to "Do you ever eat your own poop?"

Indeed.

The problem here is obviously that everyone has eaten their own poop at one time or another, whereas only really gross people have pets. We wouldn't want to insult poop eaters by associating them with pet owners through a retroactively edited poll.
Still it would be locked instantly once it was changed to that. Better than having a great thread ruined by a typo in the poll.

  • 02.02.2012 3:08 PM PDT