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Postby Angel » Thu Dec 01, 2022 5:31 pm

If not, we should be able to.
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Postby JoelcrNeto » Fri Dec 02, 2022 7:21 am

No, we can't. I mean, this is not the purpose of this website.
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Postby Blockio » Fri Dec 02, 2022 4:17 pm

I shall elaborate on what Joel said; EGF is not meant as a social media platform, it is meant as a platform for meaningful conversation. A poll option, which by definition is just a popularity vote with no further thought to it, runs completely antithetical to that. There are plenty of those around in Eva groups on Reddit, Twitter and Facebook (and to be frank: all of those places are utter cesspits in no small part due to the kind of popularity tribalism encouraged by features such as likes and polls, which we pointedly want to avoid here), so if you want a poll option, you should go there instead; the users on there will by nature of the platform also be much more receptive to engaging in that way.
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Postby UrsusArctos » Sat Dec 03, 2022 8:51 pm

Joel and Blockio pretty much said it. We've never allowed polls during our site's history for all the reasons previously mentioned, and to our benefit.
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Postby Angel » Sat Dec 03, 2022 10:04 pm

View Original PostBlockio wrote:I shall elaborate on what Joel said; EGF is not meant as a social media platform, it is meant as a platform for meaningful conversation.


And that's why you have a forum section for topics like "which Eva kicks the most ass?"

View Original PostBlockio wrote:A poll option, which by definition is just a popularity vote with no further thought to it, runs completely antithetical to that.


It certainly CAN be used for that purpose, but it can also be used to gather information to fuel meaningful discussion. In my case, I wanted to see if people's preferred ships (or lack thereof) played a significant role in whether they preferred the original series or the Rebuilds. My hypothesis was that the original series would be overwhelmingly preferred by A/S shippers while people who preferred the Rebuilds would tend toward R/S. I could still ask, but polls produce higher-quality results than manually counting replies to a thread.
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Postby Blockio » Mon Dec 05, 2022 10:35 am

For a purpose like that, you can always simply link a strawpoll, or any other free online polling service.
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Postby Angel » Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:35 am

I wasn't aware that any such thing existed
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