Re^2: poll ideas quest

Thank you for the suggestions. The creative input can certainly be helpful.

However, you haven't finished these polls. At least I presume that you don't really want the last choice to be "etc". So you'd like someone else to finish the poll choices?

It can be fun to whip out a quick poll suggestion and it is pretty easy to come up with an interesting topic and a couple of interesting choices. But the hard part of coming up with a poll is figuring out exactly which choices to include. If one really wants to help out with getting better polls created, then doing the hard part of the work is going be more appreciated than doing the (sometimes) easy part (sometimes coming up with a topic is difficult in a different way).

So I thank you again for the suggestions and I'll look at them again when I think it has come time for a new poll and I may use one of them as a starting point.

And I also thank you for giving me an example to let me clarify what I mean by "do the work".

There will always be options that some will think should have been included even though the poll author didn't think so (sometimes as an oversight, sometimes as a difference of opinion). When I've been involved in or seen polls being composed for PerlMonks, quite a lot of effort goes into looking for choices that should be included.

- tye

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Re^3: poll ideas quest by Miss Brain (Acolyte) on Dec 05, 2004 at 17:56 UTC
YAPoll suggestion? What religion is most similar to Perl? (in no particular order) Christianity Hinduism Judaism Islam Buddhism Zen Buddhism Catholicism Discordia Paganism Daoism CowboyNeal Atheism Wicca Magic	[reply]
Re^4: poll ideas quest by Koosemose (Pilgrim) on Dec 05, 2004 at 22:57 UTC
Perhaps Christianity should be retitled as protestant(ism?), since, as Moriarty more or less mentioned, catholocism is simply a subcategory of Christianity. Probably removal of Magic, since it's more a part of certain religions, than a religion itself. One could perhaps replace it with Ceremonial Magic, or ceremonialism, which would cover lots of stuff like Thelema and the Order of the Golden Dawn and other such things. One could then, in theory, proceed to remove Wicca, since the two primary flavors of Wicca tend to fall under either Paganism (even though it's a rather generalistic term, it works) or Ceremonialism, (the original Wicca was founded by a member of the golden dawn as I recall, or at least heavily based on it) Yah... I probably thought abou this just a bit to much... eh well... Just Another Perl Alchemist	[reply]
Re^4: poll ideas quest by Moriarty (Abbot) on Dec 05, 2004 at 22:04 UTC
I noticed you separated Catholicism from Christianity. Are trying to say that Catholics aren't Christian? :)	[reply]
Re^5: poll ideas quest by shenme (Priest) on Dec 06, 2004 at 20:29 UTC
Ahh, religion... But yes, ouch, on what you pointed out. If you're going to start splitting, at least call it Eastern Christianity and Western Christianity. But it gets too weird too fast, so keep it global? But, hey, Shinto ain't Zen, and how can you mention Daoism without Confucianism? Though I'm real sure that with the emphasis on ritual, propriety, and etiquette that Confucians would prefer something other than Perl, perhaps Java?. But otherwise, I have observed many monks here demonstrating: Jen: benevolence, humaneness towards others; the highest Confucian virtue	[reply]


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