Well it seems not many people have an opinion about polls, since only 7 people voted. Three people agree with me that more then one option is true. I think option 2 and 4.
For some (2) reasons I think that Tyteen voted 3. It was the first vote about the same time that Tyteen responded on my question about the codes. Second reason is that he wanted to have a poll about who should be moderator.
I think option 3 would be not good:
If someone has an opinion about something, and he/she tries to explain it, and why he/she has that opinion, then it's very good possible that someone else says other things where the first person hadn't thought about, so after that, person 1 perhaps changes his/her opinion. By simply voting without any explanation it's not possible that people learn from other people's opinions or knowledge. Therefore I think it's good if people think about why they have that opinion, so they can talk about it. The only way to get an agreement is if people explain their opinion, accept and respect other people's opinion and try to learn from each other.
A poll may be good to state your personal taste about something, such as: I like TOW, or RTW, or perhaps the WA editor. But not if it's about important things.
Let's say there are 5 fools in a house. Peter, Patrick, Pierre and Pipo-the-clown all like to eat potatoes with strawberry sauce. But John prefers pancakes with ketchup. Now let's say you are John. Would it be fair if they vote everyday what they eat? Then you have to eat everyday potatoes with strawberry sauce and never pancakes with ketchup. That's not fair, is it? If more people have the same taste about something, does that give them more rights to get what they want then the one who has a different taste? I think John has the same rights as the other people.
So, talking about option 3, I also said something about option 2 and 4. A poll doesn't ask for reasons and explanations, so it is not to be used for something important, but it is very good to be used for something just for fun, no matter if it's an opinion, a taste, something they experienced, or something they know.
The latter brings me to option 1. I have to admit that I didn't think out that option by myself, but I sort of stole it from Blast. (I hope you don't have a problem with that
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http://pcpuzzle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=21625 If someone wants to know, just for fun, how many people know the answer to a question, and how many people don't know, then I think a poll is a good option to check that. Nothing wrong with that. If you don't agree please tell me.
Oh, and btw, the poll was completely unnecessary here.
That's also a personal opinion. In my opinion a poll is always unnecessary, but
not always useless. (option 5) If it's just for fun it's not useless, but it's also hard to say that it's necessary. But if a MOD deletes a poll because he thinks it's unnecessary, that's also quite unnecessary in my opinion. Because the topic is still there and can be brought up to top by people who respond on it, which may be annoying for some people, but the poll can't. (if you vote on a poll, it isn't coming up back to top)
But the most unnecessary thing that a MOD can do is to change a poll or delete an option, because he thinks it's a wrong option. But well, I've said that before, and as long as there no response at, I guess that's clear.
Then option 6: I'm glad that no one disagreed that I made a topic about 2 different things instead of 2 different topics.
The vote on option 8 is probably by ^_^, because he wants to be different, and that's ok.
That's all I want to say about it right now.
If my guesses are right about who voted what, I'm still curious about the people who agreed with me about option 7, and what other options they would vote.
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