Questions tagged [polling]
Use this tag when asking about questions that ask users to rank or show a specific preference for one of a list of options over another. Polls and polling are an often subjective type of question that the Stack Exchange Network isn't optimized for.
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Have a system for 'polls' on Meta and Teams
While it's not a great fit for our "core" Q&A experience, I've found over time that for the process of running the community, we often do ugly things with Q&A engine in order to get ...
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Would you stop using Stack Exchange if it were taken over by a big internet company (e.g. Google)? [closed]
At first I wanted to make this an actual poll (Yes, No, Maybe), but apparently, polls are not well received here. So, let's see what an extended discussion+voting yields.
Based on a previous question ...
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What should we do with sets of answers that are actually polling options?
Sometimes there are users that post questions and immediately with that answers that are just meant to attract votes (in the positive way: an opinion of the community).
As an example here. OP posts a ...
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Should we move these type of (off-topic) questions?
Most of the times, in most of the SE sites, polling questions are not well-seen. Paradoxically, they were proven to be quite useful and had a lot of upvotes. When this topic is discussed, however, it ...
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What would be the aftermath of not immediately showing the vote results?
Few polls on the internet show the results before letting you vote. From what I have seen, most of them either show the results after you place your vote, or show the results after you click the "See ...
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Are poll-style questions ever acceptable on meta sites?
On proper Stack Exchange sites, poll-style questions are not considered acceptable. They typically would serve only to measure users' opinions in aggregate, which is not constructive.
However, meta ...
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How about a polling question? [duplicate]
Alright, we all know polls are bad, evil, no good, rotten garbage and they have no place on the Stack Exchange network. And yet...
...it seems to be working pretty darn well over at TeX Meta. Brief ...
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What close reason for polling questions?
Most Stack Exchange site get their share of poll and list (shopping or otherwise) questions. (“What are all the fidgets that warble mildly?” “Where can I find tutorials about stambolgification?“ “...
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Long-standing poll questions
I've come across a couple of poll questions
What Delphi coding standards document(s) do you follow?
Distributed Computing Framework (.NET) - Specifically for CPU Intensive operations
Both are quite ...
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Ought objective yes/no questions about the existence of a project etc be construed as "poll questions"?
Earlier today I asked a question that's been on my mind for a few weeks, about whether a certain type of project exists:
Are there any efforts underway to port or create an alternate implementation ...
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Where to run income poll
I would like to run a poll on the income of people. What is the best StackExchange platform to run this on?
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What do the top answerers on SO have in common?
Has SO ever taken a poll to search for commonality amongst top answerers? I would be very interested to know things such as:
Languages Known
Degrees Had, if any
Place of employment or self employed
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about "who in the software world do you admire the most"?
This question has hundreds of answers, many of which are probably dupes. I'm actually amazed that it's still alive, considering the "let's close them polls" of the last few months (weeks?). The ...
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Feature Suggestion: Officially support Poll type questions [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
We have Community wikis and normal questions; we need Polls
(Yes, I'm prepared to be heavily down-voted ... I know that many here don't like poll questions for some reason)
I ...
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Why was my poll question closed? [closed]
I'm a beginner/intermediate SO user and I thought this was a good legit question. Even though it was a bit subjective. I'm a CS student and my thinking was to go learn the few editors that got the ...
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