[SillyPooh]

What about having polls?
Picture this: there's a question at the top of the main page and a link to answer the question. Appears a small window with the question and two buttons yes and no. You click on one of them and you get moved to another window with the results of the poll with percentages.

By using cookies, you prevent people from voting twice...
Mass questions for mass answers...

Whatcha think?

Of course, some people will say that we have the forums.. Well, I don't think the forums have been made for that, and there you would only get a max of 50 answers or so - some people hate to write... No, what we need is a quick way to poll a lot of people.

[reader50]

The Forums do manage more than 50 replies to poll-like questions.

what do you think of Adobe sueing MacNN
<reply here to increase your post count>
cars
Would you buy a Cube

And the Forums have the benefit that answers are not limited to Yes/No or a list. My answer to a poll question often is not in the list, or is conditional rather than Yes or No.

• "Do you plan to buy a peecee soon?"
  [Yes] [No] - correct answer: **#@&**!!!
  
• "How often do you water your Mac?"
  [Never] [Daily] [Weekly] [Yearly] - correct answer: Accidentally
  
• "Which is more attractive?"
  [Key Lime] [Sage] [Snow] - correct answer: Uhhhh... defective question!
  
• "Do you make plenty of money?"
  [Yes] [No] - correct answer: Decline to state, might be incriminating. And those missing dies were never traced to me.

[SillyPooh]

The Forums do manage more than 50 replies to poll-like questions.

I know that. What I meant is that, never ever have I seen forum polls getting more than 50 replies. Also, all these have to be divided in two pages or more, which is something of a pain to follow.

The thing is: how do you get the percentage out of these replies? You simply can't. Now if some hot shot guy from Apple wants some day to see how people have reacted to such or such action or business decision, they're not gonna spend hours reading about every reply, they would better read the outcome of this poll, namely the results in percentage.

[Ruby]

I like that idea...

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[mac freak]

OOoo.. oOOo.... oooooOoo....

Old threads make mac freak happy!

And I have no idea why!

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[Fred CHOTTIN]

Having polls is a great idea. On 'as the Apple turns' you have very funny ones with 5 different possible answers. You got more serious ones on other sites like MacAddict, ZDnet, etc... Average number of answers for above is well over 1000.

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[Cipher13]

Slashdot always has a cool poll, always with at least 15000 results

Cipher13

[Evangellydonut]

lol yeah, slashdot...where people have nothing better to do than writing pearl scripts to trash their webbrowser cookies so they can vote 1000 times faster than anyone else...um, how come I don't like that idea? I was going to say "if we have polls, hope it won't degrade to Slashdot's levels" and saw that last post... (nothing against reading Slashdot or Cipher. I wouldn't know unless I read it on a regular basis...)

[Cipher13]

It doesn't have to be legit to be cool (I mean you shouldn't take the results seriously).
Its a good site... y'all should check it out.
I'm talking the news section, btw... (main page... not all the UNIX stuff).

Cipher13

[This message has been edited by Cipher13 (edited 12-27-2000).]

polls are the best way to find out what we think!! iMac2day has one. Great. Xicons has one. Great. The forums should have various ones as well. It would be cool.