Solution to the ATS Poll problem

I've noticed a few threads that involve polls lately, and have seen many in the past, but there hasn't been a way to effectivly poll the ATS members without the tedious task of going through each post and calculating the yes' and no's. Well I think I have a solution, and forgive me if this has already been done...

After your opening to the thread where you lay out the question to be polled, follow with two posts, the first a "yes" and the next post a "no". Then explain to the readers that a star for the post will indicate their vote! Then the poster can feel free to post a follow up explaining their position if they please. So lets try it out...

POLL QUESTION

Do you believe Aliens have visited Earth in the last 100 years?

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For YES star this post

For NO star this post

That's quite a good idea as it happens

Nice way of getting round the no poll thingy

edit- but you can't star posts in here you can have a flag instead

[edit on 11/2/2010 by Acidtastic]

Oops, I just realized you cannot star in this forum, can a Mod please move it to an appropriate forum that allows stars.

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reply to post by Acidtastic


Thanks, too bad I put it in one of the few forums that don't allow stars!

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This will not work. 1. The star system can be manipulated 2. It gives the person holding the poll an unfair advantage at collecting stars (meaning, points)

I think its best just to let people respond with their answers and allow proper discussion to flow.




Thread closed.


[edit on February 11th 2010 by greeneyedleo]

I'm gonna say the likelihood of us approving a system designed to do little more than glom stars for the thread author isn't going to happen.

All that would do is generate a blizzard of "poll" threads. Every thread is a poll of sorts, with a discussion involved.

[Edit to add]

^^ what she said.

[edit on 2/11/2010 by yeahright]