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2015-09-13 19:16:11 +0200
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Anyone with karma >75 is welcome to improve it.
The Guideline project:
Planning improvements to the new guide, topic "Creating a poll". Great comments here, and the correct answer already includes one type of poll detailed. Later I've tested also a comment poll, which was easy and efficient, so adding instructions for one like that as well. New content could be:
Creating a poll
There are two kind of polling options, both having their benefits. The latter, unfortunately, includes both up and down voting options, but down voting shouldn't be used in polls by anyone
Comment poll:
- Easy solution when there's no need for discussion
- Very user friendly with max 5 options, but can handle several more options
- No down voting option!
- Submit a new question including nice topic and your poll question
- Instruct your readers to vote one or several of the comments (soon written by you), and ask them to not comment themselves (unless you leave them free to add more poll options)
- Tag your question with
poll and other tags related to your poll question - Mark your question as community wiki (polls may not be used for karma hunting)
- Post your question. Add the poll options as comments
- 5 options are visible by default, as 6th comment is hidden from the default view. If you have more than 5, you can advice your readers to click "See more comments" before voting
- After the poll is complete, you can copypaste the results to one answer, accept it and close the poll
Question / Answer poll:
- Use especially when discussion might add value to your poll
- Suggested max 10 options
- Both up & down voting is possible
- Submit a new question including nice topic and your poll question
- Instruct your readers to vote one or several of the answers (soon written by you), and ask them to not answer themselves (unless you leave them free to add more poll options). Instruct them that each option can be further discussed under the answer, and the poll itself can be discussed under the question.
- Tag your question with
poll and other tags related to your poll question - Mark your question as community wiki (polls may not be used for karma hunting)
- Post your question. Add the poll options as answers, each marked as community wiki
- Note: Don't add too many answers. 10 options fits into the first page, and it's not very user friendly to have options in several pages. When having more than ten, advice your readers to check the other pages as well.
The guideline project discusses on these old guideline posts until September 20th, updating and gathering information from here to a new post The Guideline. You're welcome to join the project, for example by editing and commenting this answer.
Great to have this conversation. IMO, we should be able to make polls in e.g. situations where an idea includes several alternative features and each could be voted as separate - leading the final solution to include at least the most voted features. Another need for poll-type-questions might be a simple yes/no polling (people voting on two answers, and vote the question itself just for the importance of the issue). About karma, personally I have no need for any :) Is there any chance to just exclude karma calculation totally from certain questions/answers?
simo ( 2014-01-18 15:20:49 +0200 )edit@simo: IMHO, in order to properly offer a yes/no polling solution we'd actually need a separate module where karma calculation is completely ignored. I think it's important to keep in mind we intend to have a broken down structure per feature so we can track/plan and eventually implement no matter if it belongs to a broader set. If we look at a specific application, we'd typically add the relevant tag which allows to view all the features under it, in priority order based on votes, all nicely listed (30 items per page)...
eric ( 2014-01-18 15:29:25 +0200 )editThere is really need for some proper polling system in Together. As there will be many different solutions available to solve things, people must have an opportunity to say which solution they prefer most. Also agree on that karma should be ignored since it's not that important.
TimTTK ( 2014-01-18 15:56:03 +0200 )editthe question is what you want... one question per feature turns out to be source of duplicating as someone who does not understand one question properly or does not see fit to his, fires up a new question which gets closed for duplication or will have the same outcome.
chemist ( 2014-01-18 15:58:55 +0200 )editHere's a suggestion about tagging questions that include polling. Should there be a tag like "Poll" used when question includes polling or should the "Poll" rather be used in front of the question like "Poll: (your question)" This would make it easier to spot question that include polling.
TimTTK ( 2014-01-18 17:10:14 +0200 )edit