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Feature request to add an option for polls to topics
It would be very nice to have an option for multiple choice polls in topics so that the comments remain in-depth while giving people the chance to give their input on simple questions.
I can see this being most useful for threads where you want widespread participation / input, but don't want a lot of low-effort "me too" comments in order to keep average comment quality high.
I think there's two potential use cases for this:
It would also be another great way for lurkers to participate without actually being forced to dive into the conversation.
Use strawpool or something similar like the black mirror re-watch topics are doing?
I think the problem with any external site like Strawpoll is how easy it can be to stuff the ballot box by using multiple computers, clearing cookies, etc.
The benefit of having it baked in to Tildes is that the results would be much more trustworthy, because it could enforce one account, one vote. Long-term when the site is open for public registration it might need tweaking, such as needing non-zero reputation to vote to prevent registering new accounts simply for poll manipulation, but that's both a long way off and very easy to do.
To add on this, maybe the poll creators could be given the option to make all votes public. This would help with preventing vote manipulation on more sensitive topics.
I second that: polls shouldn't be natively supported by Tildes, especially when there are a couple dozen websites who will already do that for us out-of-the-box. There are much more important things for Tildes to focus on at this point in time, maybe a few years from now it would be a neat minor feature to have.
People fooling themselves that having it inside Tildes makes it more secure is just asinine, that'd just give it the illusion of being more trustworthy without delivering on it at all. Other people saying that this will promote good discussion... uh no? People will just vote on one of the given options instead of actually discussing... how is that a good thing?!
Yes, you can never control really who has invites to this site. Unless they are personally vetted by @deimos . Personally I think that a few things can be taken "in leaps of faith" by the community not to tamper with.
When the reputation system is in place, you'd likely need some level of reputation to even vote.
Agree though—it's not exactly a priority right now.
Yeah, my point went way above your head if you think the reputation system changes anything.
I wasn't thinking an external site. I'm just talking about really simple polls being built into the submission form for topics on Tildes itself.