Board 8 > So I sent a Poll of the Day idea that got rejected, so I'm posting it here...

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Was it a bad poll idea? What do you think? Have you ever done this before? Tell me in the comment section below!
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certainly no worse than the polls that do get approved

but yes I have

I preordered P5 before I bought my PS4, but the latter arrived first due to preorder. Does that count?
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I'd have included a "yes, but I never actually got the console it's for" option.
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I have prepurchased games and bought the console on the games release.

Yes, the BotW special edition. Still don't have a Switch
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I only ever did it for GBA. I had Golden Sun lying around for a month before I got a GBA.
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I got Dead Rising 3 from my uncle before getting an Xbox One, and I've bought a few retro games from garage sales, flea markets, etc. without owning the systems too.
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I bought Halo 3 before an Xbox 360, but in that case my friend and I were playing it on his console.
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Yes only for Nintendo consoles though.
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Bought Final Fantasy VII before I owned a playstation. But only because a friend of mine had a playstation, and I could play it at his house.
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Seriously considering it for Odyssey
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I bought Mega Man Powered Up and Castlevania: Dracula X Chronicles before I owned a PSP
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I pre-ordered Wind Waker and got the Master Quest disc before I actually got a GameCube.
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I pre-ordered Persona 5 before I got a PS4 but got a PS4 before the game released

So... sort of?
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Only once

I bought Pokemon Ruby but didn't own a Gameboy Advance because I wanted to wait and get the SP instead
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Me and my sister bought Knuckles and Chaotix when we were kids thinking it was for the Mega Drive. That counts, right?
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I got Brawl to play on my roommate's Wii a long time ago. I never actually did get a Wii-- traded him Brawl for Halo 3 when I moved out.

I have Uncharted Collection for the PS4 due to it having been on a great PSN sale but haven't bothered getting a PS4 yet.

That would be it. Not something I do often.
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No, but I bought a Gamecube memory card a couple weeks before getting the Gamecube (I was already planning on buying it at that point).
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I pre-ordered Mario Odyssey under the assumption that I would eventually get a Switch before it came out.

Cut it close but I finally got one!
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No. I have bought some Steam games my computer can't play for the possibility that I'll upgrade it later, if that counts.
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Pretty sure I did this for Persona 3 Portable and Persona 4 Golden

Actually, I Kickstarted Amplitude (at the tier to receive a digital download code) when I still don't have a PS4 or PS3. So that sort of counts for the 3rd option.
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i had SoulCalibur IV and Tekken 6 months (or maybe a year) before I got my PS3.

Pokken. never got a Wii U.

Oh yeah, also bought Super Paper Mario before getting a Wii. Though my roommate in college had one. So not sure that counts or not.
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As a gift, but not for myself.
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Advokaiser posted...

Was it a bad poll idea? What do you think? Have you ever done this before? Tell me in the comment section below!

I wouldn't consider it a bad poll idea. I actually asked Allen a question regarding PotD submissions last year and this was my question and Allen's response:


-LusterSoldier- posted...

What is the overall rejection rate for PotD submissions? This would not include submissions that did not get reviewed for whatever reason, like those pulled from the queue.

From the looks of things, it has to be an extremely high rejection rate based on how a lot of users have posted about their PotD submissions being rejected, even when they were extremely well-written and followed all of the guidelines listed on the submission form.

If the PotD rejection rate is very high like I suspect, why is the rejection rate so high in comparison to other contribution types?

SBAllen posted...

It's pretty high. We've run close to 6500 PotDs and it's pretty hard for people to come up with poll suggestions that aren't just variants of polls we've already run or things that don't really make sense to poll about due to skewed variables or just content that doesn't appeal to our crowd.

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I can definitely tell the quality control is very high when it comes to gamefaqs polls of the day
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LusterSoldier posted...

it's pretty hard for people to come up with poll suggestions that aren't just variants of polls we've already run

So instead, they just run duplicates of their own polls 1-2 times per year?
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I wish the damn best year in gaming idea was user submitted. Maybe having a user submit the idea would make Bacon realize how crummy it was.
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Hmm
Yes? Sort of.

I preordered and bought Doom 3 on PC.
It was not capable to be played on Windows 98 and my graphics card probably would not have been able to run it anyway. It was two and a half years till I had a capable pc with xp and fx card to play.

That counts, right?
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All of the cases I've seen in the topic asking if they count, I do see them counting, since the focus of the situation is first and foremost the game in question, then the actual access to the console. As far as having access to someone else's console, that counts too. I'd actually only see two scenarios for it not counting:

1._The console in question was bought or preordered BEFORE having bought the game for it.

2._Having a borrowed console (e.g. having it at your house/roomate's, traveling with it, etc.). This excludes having it at a friend's house, since you don't quite have the console.

I'm glad that this was a well-received idea and turned out to be much more common than I expected. It's a shame, though, that the rejection rate is so high for the PotD's. Thanks for the info, Luster.
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I did that with the MGS4 limited edition when I found it in a $20 bin.
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