- Verachi
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Posted by: Verachi
I guess a way to fix this is, you can only vote if you post with your vote. Just like we can't post empty posts, you can't vote if its a post-less vote. Hopefully that makes sense.Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
If it's a thread comparing Gears of War to Call of Duty, and those are the options, what's to stop people from just posting "Call of Duty" or "Gears of War" without giving any explanation at all? That just creates spam which bumps a thread probably full of equally spam posts.
Posted by: Kalriq
Ideally, that would be a solution. But think about the population of this site.
All you would get is X ammount of posts with their one word answer to the poll, and maybe something of sense amongst the others.
It would just create spam and unnecessary thread bumping for the most part.
Don't get me wrong I don't want what I said implemented.I agree with you guys. All I did was say what I thought would fix the problem of the thread dying off because of people voting and not posting.
Posted by: CrazzySnipe55
Posted by: Verachi
What is stopping people from doing that now? We get those type of responses all the time, I don't believe it would change too much with what I posted. If people are spamming they'll eventually get banned and hopefully they'll learn their lesson.Nothing is stopping them from doing it now, but if someone is forced to compose a post that they don't want to compose to get their point across, they're much more likely to have that post be very simple or borderline spam length.
If you force a kid to clean his room for no reason, he's going to do a terrible job, but if you give him a reason or incentive to do it, then he'll do a better job. I know it's not a perfect analogy but the point is people don't like doing things they don't want to do so if they have to do it they'll do a bad job.
And I agree with that, when I said this..
Posted by: Verachi
What is stopping people from doing that now? We get those type of responses all the time, I don't believe it would change too much with what I posted.
I was trying to get across that, when we have threads like Blargh vs Blarghhhhh some people post one word posts/spam. What I was saying is if my fix/idea was implemented then it wouldn't make that much of a difference since people already give one word posts.
Posted by: x Foman123 x
Polls do not damage discussion. People who want to make their voice heard will do so regardless of a poll option.
The real problem is that threads that are conducive to polling are usually not conducive to discussion. If you're trying to "survey" a forum by asking a question that can be fully and completely answered with a one- or two-word answer (such as "yes" or "no"), it doesn't matter whether there is a poll or not -- your thread sucks and will not encourage discussion.
If you're going to have a poll option on your thread, ensure that users cannot fully and completely respond to the thread simply by clicking on the poll. I could try to provide some examples if you want, but I really think this is self-explanatory.
Also this...