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Posted by: burritosenior
Because it wasn't worth the time to get rid of or because it's only a glitch that the poll overrides the subject every time perhaps?
I don't think it was a glitch. Pretty sure it was a 100% intentional change. There was discrepancy between the poll question and the thread subject, so one of them was normally vague. This often resulted in subjects like "Do you agree?" which obviously is not helpful. But there always should be a subject.
A while back, I seem to recall that poll titles started showing up in the thread listing instead of the thread title. The two concepts (thread title vs. poll question) were so similar in most cases that the web team made the poll question become the subject, regardless of what you entered in the subject line.
The subject line is still there when you add a poll, yes, and it probably doesn't need to be, but that's okay. It does no harm.
A similar issue was when we could edit the subject of our reply to a thread. It never showed up unless it was the first post of a page, and then it was a distraction. Today, the subject of every reply defaults to the subject of the thread.