In my humble opinion, polls should be closed when the number of votes has reached above 10% of the number of registered users and the number of new votes per day is equal to or less than one. That way, you get a general indication of the feelings of the Monks and it leaves time for all the late stragglers or people who have been working too hard to vote before :) The exception to this should be when Something Important in the Perl World happens and a new poll regarding that has to be made. Just a thought.