Re: Moderator question -- Polls

["James K Droscha" <jdroscha@...>]

--- In piecepack@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Andrew Biggar" 
<mark.a.biggar@c...> wrote:
> Is there any way to get pools turned on for the group?


Hello Mark,

Polls were requested once before.  (The request was made privately 
and recently.)

The reason they are currently turned off: I (the list owner) 
frequently find polls to be irritating, trollish, and non-
representative.

Tell ya what I'm gonna do.  I just turned polls on so that they are 
creatable only by moderators (that's me and Mr. Thorn).  If you would 
like a poll up here, please send a message to the list with a subject 
of, oh, I dunno, "Suggested Poll" or somesuch.  In the body, write 
the question and suggested responses.  If it appears informative and 
not too flamey, one of us will go ahead and create it.  (Ed, if you 
want to just leave them to me, that's no problem.  If you don't mind 
creating them, all the groovier.)

Please do NOT reply to such messages with "oh, that's a great poll 
idea" and you-know-what-I-mean.  If the originator of the poll 
suggestion feels the request got missed, he or she should send a 
little poke by private email to jdroscha at att dot net.

Here's the type of poll you will not see approved:
"What is the best [...]?"
Why?  Because it is worded poorly, and it asks for opinion rather 
than fact.  If you want people's opinions, just send a properly 
worded question to the list: "What is your favorite [...] and why?"

Also, keep in mind that the moderator creating the poll reserves the 
right to edit both the question and the proposed responses.  I will 
always be inclined to add a response at the bottom like "none of the 
above represents my preferred response" to help combat 
misrepresentation.

If you find any of this unreasonable, please feel free to email 
jdroscha at att dot net.

Cheers,
James