I think it would be nice if we could submit poll suggestions in some way other than posting a suggestion in 'Perl Monks Discussion'. Perhaps an email address or a web form?

We could add a 'suggest' link on the bottom of the Vote Booth node. The suggest link could be a mailto link or a link to a page with a form. Personally, I prefer the web form, because we could put a disclaimer on the page along the lines of 'Feel free to suggest poll ideas if you're feeling creative. We strongly suggest reading the past polls first.'

Perhaps it would be better to not put a 'suggest' link in the voting booth node, but provide the link in the results page? I'm interested in what others think about this. Also, if we decide to implement a suggestion method, then I think we should also give proper credit for suggestions which become polls. Maybe we could put a line in the results page like: "This poll was suggested by brother merlyn." . . .

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Re: Submitting Poll suggestions? (same way)
by tye (Sage) on Feb 07, 2003 at 18:15 UTC
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      Before I posted my comment, I searched 'poll suggest', poll suggestion, submit polls' etc... but I didn't find anything .. thanks for pointing the node out.
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        "searched"? The node I referenced contains "poll" and "suggest" so you either didn't use Super Search or you didn't finish searching (or...).

        The search box at the top of each page isn't very useful for finding material by subject matter as it only searches titles (perhaps it should be called "find" instead? -- gee, this fact isn't clearly noted at all, is it?).

        Since your question was about the site, select "PM Discussion" in Super Search to make the searching much faster. Hope that helps.

        I've started patching the search results page in hopes of making some of this much clearer.

                        - tye
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      Actually, posting your idea as a reply to poll ideas quest and then "/msg gods" a pointer to it (if it is really good), would be good.

      I don't think that's very intuitive or simple enough for new people here. At the very least, we could provide a link to those instructions somewhere in the voting booth or the results page.

      However, I still think that having a web form would be the best way to make proposals. What do others think?

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