in reply to poll ideas quest 2025

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Alex / talexb / Toronto

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Re^2: poll ideas quest 2025
by pryrt (Abbot) on Jan 05, 2025 at 21:44 UTC
      Now there's the dilemma of authorship - talexb had the idea, but you did the hard work. We don't really have a good solution for this.

      Also bear in mind all of this has to fit in the Voting Booth nodelet, so having fewer options is usually better.

        talexb had the idea, but you did the hard work

        Give the authorship to talexb.

        so having fewer options is usually better

        I prefer the polls that give more choices, but if that provides technical challenges, or if there's a history showing that longer polls get fewer responses, then pollsters can pick whatever subset makes the most sense

        I'm happy to share authourship of this poll. :)

        Alex / talexb / Toronto

        For a long time, I had a link in my .sig going to Groklaw. I heard that as of December 2024, this link is dead. Still, thanks to PJ for all your work, we owe you so much. RIP Groklaw -- 2003 to 2013.

Re^2: poll ideas quest 2025
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 05, 2025 at 18:18 UTC
    Server log files are better than a poll for that.

      Server log files are better than a poll for that.

      Only if you actually think that polls are for trying to find the truth, as opposed to...

      ...say, act as a kind of social glue on the site to spark discussions, tales, and command line war stories to come to light.

      Cheers, Sören

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      (hooked on the Perl Programming language)

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