Promote your polls

[semielliptical]

polls is the place to promote your polls!

Want to attract poll takers beyond your own friends, beyond your fandom, outside of fandom? Post a short description and link at polls.

Please read the community rules before posting.

Thanks to chagrined for the community idea!

Comments

[pne]

Yay!

This seems like something like tickybox over at LiveJournal... I was hoping something like this would spring up over here, too. (Because tickybox over here isn't the same, open concept where anyone can post links.)

(Occasionally, I considered starting up a community myself, but never got around to it.)

What are the rules on community entries that include the poll in them, rather than with just a link to an entry in the poster's personal journal which then contains the poll? I know that tickybox frowned on them, but they'd happen occasionally.

[semielliptical]

What are the rules on community entries that include the poll in them, rather than with just a link to an entry in the poster's personal journal which then contains the poll?

Glad you asked! My instinct is that entries should only include links to polls, not an actual poll. I'll clarify in the rules. Or do you see an advantage to allowing polls in the comm?

And thanks for pointing me to tickybox - I knew a comm like this existed on LiveJournal but didn't find it when I did a little searching last night.

[pne]

My instinct is that entries should only include links to polls, not an actual poll. I'll clarify in the rules. Or do you see an advantage to allowing polls in the comm?

I'd prefer that community entries just contain a link rather than a poll, but don't have a reason I can put into words.

One difference is that polls in journal entries will also be seen by one's readers, not just by those who follow the comm - depending on the subject matter of the poll, that might be seen as an advantage or a disadvantage.

But in general, I'm not sure what the advantage of posting a poll into the comm would be.

And thanks for pointing me to tickybox - I knew a comm like this existed on LiveJournal but didn't find it when I did a little searching last night.

There's also polling_place, though that tends not to have as much traffic. (On the other hand, it tends to be a bit more American; tickybox is mostly UK folks, or so it seems to me.)

[semielliptical]

But in general, I'm not sure what the advantage of posting a poll into the comm would be.

I agree. And as a mod, I would rather not have to be too concerned about the content of the polls themselves, which is easier if the polls are elsewhere.

Would you be interested in being a mod of polls? I really don't think it will involve much moderation, but it seems better to have more than one mod, in case I'm hit by a bus or something.

[pne]

Would you be interested in being a mod of polls?

Sure!

[semielliptical]

Great, thanks! You're now an administrator. I clarified the rules a bit, let me know if you think they need any other edits.

[pne]

Thanks!

Looks mostly good to me.

One thing I can think of - but where I'm not sure whether it merits explicit mention in the rules - is whether to link to the poll itself or to the entry containing the poll.

It may be best to leave that open, since both approaches have merits: linking to the entry may be useful if there is information you should read before reading the poll; linking to the poll may be useful - among other reasons - so that people aren't influenced by comments when answering.

Do you have an opinion on this?

[semielliptical]

I'm happy to leave that up to the individual, I agree with you that there are possible reasons for either approach.

[yvi]

Just as an information: Polls can be reposted. When someone has the ID of a poll, they can post it to another journal - it will have the same votes it already has, it will just appear in the other entry, too.

[semielliptical]

Good to know, thanks!