Current Events > Hot Take: We should allowed to make In-topic Polls* (with conditions)

(+) Yeah! (+)

Conditions: One poll per user per topic. Or maybe, per 100 posts. On CE? Per topic. On, say, retro gaming? Per 100 posts. Or even per 20 posts.

For example, look at the retro gaming board right now. There's a guy running a pretty excellent poll series on best graphics of console/arcade/PC, through the years, back to the 70s. (https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/204-classic-gaming).

But he has to make a new poll for each year, and each platform, which results in dozens of topics with 20ish posts each. In my opinion, this would be better as a 500-post topic, with a poll by that guy in-topic, every time a new year comes up. It would declutter the board and it would centralize discussion, which would create better continuity than having several different topics.

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this is a good idea

I came in misunderstanding your suggestion, but with your explanation I get what you're saying now. I doubt they'd ever do it. Especially for such a unique situation. I don't see something like this coming up very often. But yeah, it's an idea.

Bandit_Keith posted...

I came in misunderstanding your suggestion, but with your explanation I get what you're saying now. I doubt they'd ever do it. Especially for such a unique situation. I don't see something like this coming up very often. But yeah, it's an idea.

yeah probably why they dont do it. idk the back end infrastructure of GF but it seems pretty ramshackle, "built from the ground up". Fandom would need to put a $70k/year dev on it for a week to develop it, and for what? so 500-1500 users can sometimes make polls? Just not financially smart. Have him doing other things.