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Why no option that says something to the effects of "Other, because I live in a different country and have a different name for it"?
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This is an English language site. Presumably if you have a different name for it, it's in a different language, and therefore no one here cares what you call it.
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Are there other names for the season that are English?
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LanLan12345 posted...

Why no option that says something to the effects of "Other, because I live in a different country and have a different name for it"?

It has to have name
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There are only 2 seasons here, and neither one starts today. It's still summer as fuck.

I would have preferred a "Thank fuck summer is over, gimme that dark and cold!" option.

I don't like summer.

I came here to ask the same question.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

This is an English language site. Presumably if you have a different name for it, it's in a different language, and therefore no one here cares what you call it.

We just want an option to say that we call it something else and that we don't have any synonyms for it like you English tounges do. Not an option for what we are calling it...

OSB95 posted...

We just want an option to say that we call it something else

We already provided that option, though. It looks like this:

"view results"
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What exactly does it translate to on English?

Also, I believe the reason they dont add other is because they want to see the battle between those specific words.

Other probably wouldnt be a good answer as people spam it. Kind of like when they want you to vote for which game as you most excited for this month. People would spam other if it were a choice. A better answer for you would probably be something like, Im from another country and have a different word for it. Though most people probably think you have a word that translates to mean one of those.

But PO is also right that this is an English language site, so the choices are for English language natives, I guess...
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

This is an English language site. Presumably if you have a different name for it, it's in a different language, and therefore no one here cares what you call it.

Slayed.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

OSB95 posted...

We just want an option to say that we call it something else

We already provided that option, though. It looks like this:

"view results"

Troll

OSB95 posted...

ParanoidObsessive posted...

OSB95 posted...

We just want an option to say that we call it something else

We already provided that option, though. It looks like this:

"view results"

Troll

While the answer may sound trollish, PO himself is not one...
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LinkPizza posted...

While the answer may sound trollish, PO himself is not one.

It's also the correct answer, regardless of whether or not he likes it.

It's been the official stance of the site itself and the admins for more than 15 years. If a poll doesn't represent your personal overly specific or special snowflake situation, just don't vote in the poll.

The sole purpose of the poll at this point is just to collect demographic data on users so they can sell it to advertisers, and then put annoying ads that are occasionally malware on the site, which almost no one ever sees anyway because most people here are using AdBlock or NoScript. No one is under any obligation to make extremely complicated polls with dozens of options to address the majority of possible outcomes and scenarios.

The actual creative process is basically one asshole spending all of 20 seconds thinking of what the poll for the day should be, churning it out as quickly as possible, and then not really giving a shit whether or not anyone actually votes in it or not. You're probably not going to cover the vast expanse of all human experience when the person making it is putting in the minimal amount of effort and thought to come up with 5-7 options and then never think about or care about that particular poll again.

"view results" is basically the "No option in this poll applies to me, therefore I won't vote" option.
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