Are polls worthwhile and interesting?
Submitted by root
| Yes |
   46% | 163 votes |
| No |
17% | 60 votes |
| Maybe |
36% | 126 votes |
| Total 349 votes |
Posted by Anonymous (213.224.xx.xx) on Sun 15 Jan 2006 at 11:19
I said yes, because I have the feeling that here on Debian-Administration the people are not interested in faking the result and/or trying to push (cheat) one answer up in the ranking.
For me a poll mostly gives me a notion of what lives in the world :), I am very interested in polls that get answers on what is the preferred application for a certain job. This other day I needed a good text-browser, I had Elinks vs w3m, and choose for Elinks as possible best and most versatile product. I mostly based my answer on some sites that showed me a nice table with feature comparison between different text-browsers + the state of the homepage of the various projects.
For me a poll mostly gives me a notion of what lives in the world :), I am very interested in polls that get answers on what is the preferred application for a certain job. This other day I needed a good text-browser, I had Elinks vs w3m, and choose for Elinks as possible best and most versatile product. I mostly based my answer on some sites that showed me a nice table with feature comparison between different text-browsers + the state of the homepage of the various projects.
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I think that Steve has something so that if you vote twice the second vote replaces your first vote.
I have a terrible urge to submit a poll "Do you answer polls?" with one answer "Yes"
but that is just the normal Monday feeling (shame it's Tuesday) :)
I have a terrible urge to submit a poll "Do you answer polls?" with one answer "Yes"
but that is just the normal Monday feeling (shame it's Tuesday) :)
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"Maybe" or "Sometimes".
Comments on polls can sometimes be as interesting as articles. (like comments on articles which are interesting too)
But in the long term, when they change a lot, polls seems to 'tend to zero'... ;-)
Comments on polls can sometimes be as interesting as articles. (like comments on articles which are interesting too)
But in the long term, when they change a lot, polls seems to 'tend to zero'... ;-)
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Posted by Anonymous (65.205.xx.xx) on Mon 16 Jan 2006 at 19:43
The logical 'AND' forced me to choose 'No'. If you'd written 'OR' I would have said 'Yes'. In my opinion, polls are not worthwhile, and ocasionally are sightly interesting.
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Many times I felt that, the options given in the poll are not exhaustive. Also, users are forced to choose one answer or the other. Depending the type of the poll, I think it would be a nice idea to have some ranking option (meaning the voters assign a rank to the choices) or a facility to choose more than one answer etc.,
One obvious example is which editor do you use? I use vim, pico, emacs depending on the task at hand. But in the poll I am forced to choose only one even though I use the others....
raju
One obvious example is which editor do you use? I use vim, pico, emacs depending on the task at hand. But in the poll I am forced to choose only one even though I use the others....
raju
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Posted by Steve (82.41.xx.xx) on Thu 19 Jan 2006 at 09:49
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Thats what comments are for. Polls traditionally only have one choice, and I think asking people to rank options would be more difficult than just choosing one.
For your example I use Emacs when I have a choice, but I can use others if I wish. I'd probably go mad trying to rank them in order of use/preference. With polls it is implicit that I choose Emacss but don't hate the rest..
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