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why not just start a thread, this is worse than YSI spam.

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

well sorry I only did three.

Polls ARE threads you know.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

why don't you create a poll about which poll is the worst

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

because polls are stupid, i just said that

as if the new ILX isn't eyebleedingly ugly enough without bright red [POLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!] all over the new answers page

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

OMG WHO IS THE SADISTIC FUCKER WHO IS MAKING YOU CLICK ON THOSE LINKS THAT SPECIFICALLY SAY NEW POLL?!?!?

― NYCNative, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

no really this is pretty obnoxious

― deej, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

the polls are fun .. it's good mindless stuff on a slow Friday at work

― Stormy Davis, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

I think they should be on a separate board within the site, personally.

― sleeve, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

i was going to suggest to keith that he change the red poll text to make it more subtle because i knew SOMEBODY would complain about their abundance.

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

as if the new ILX isn't eyebleedingly ugly enough

IT LOOKS THE SAME, WEIRDO

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

This is all very annoying. I agree with any comment amde above so long as it is negative.

― I know, right?, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

It so does not look the same!

― I know, right?, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

And it looked really horrible for a while.

― I know, right?, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

Polls make more sense than some list threads, in that instead of having just a bunch of names listed throughout the thread, you actually get a "public opinion" result at the end.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

OK the gap between the two dashes is slightly wider than old ILX i know. there's just nothing we can do about it. i'm so sorry.

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

Hate the poll-starter, not the poll.

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

FUCK A RESULT

discussion forums are about DISCUSSION, not RESULTS, U MORANS

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

WE LIKE BOTH DISCUSSION AND RESULTS

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

I agree that a lot of the polls are really lame tho.

― blueski, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

Poll threads also contain discussion.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

I apologize for nothing!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

Just because you don't like the poll subjects means the polls are crap but no one forces you to click them.
Most of the polls have had lots of replies and good discussions and aren't just those annoying list threads.

If a poll isn't on something you like. Then make your own!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

Just because you don't like the poll subjects means the polls are crap

TRUE

Most of the polls have had lots of replies and good discussions and aren't just those annoying list threads

FALSE

If a poll isn't on something you like. Then make your own!

BAN PKUNKBOY

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

the red [POLL closes: April 20][b/] really is annoying. it pushes the title of the thread off like 25 characters so your eye is constantly going left and right instead of just straight down scanning the first few words. terrible user experience. i've learned to completely ignore poll threads.

here's a brillian idea: put the [b][POLL closes: April 20] after the name of the thread or just in the first post/question. no one really needs to know it's a poll before they click on the thread.

― jaxon, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

vahid otm as always

― strongohulkington, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

xpost - fuck that code. here it is again w/o the fuck up

the red [POLL closes: April 20] really is annoying. it pushes the title of the thread off like 25 characters so your eye is constantly going left and right instead of just straight down scanning the first few words. terrible user experience. i've learned to completely ignore poll threads.

here's a brillian idea: put the [POLL closes: April 20] after the name of the thread or just in the first post/question. no one really needs to know it's a poll before they click on the thread.

― jaxon, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

ALSO, CAN WE PLEASE HAVE SIMPLE HTML BACK? THOSE STUPID BRACKETS ARE WAY TOO HARD TO TYPE AND I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO CLICK THE CONVERT TO BB CODE EVERY TIME!!!

PLEASE!!!

― jaxon, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

despite starting one, i hate the polls too. create an "I Love Polls" board or something, because it's not like ILM/ILE weren't poll-exhausted enough as is.

― rps, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

YES PLEASE.

When I first logged on to ILM today the entire top half of New Answers was polls.

― sleeve, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

cosign

― fandango, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

the red [POLL closes: April 20] really is annoying. it pushes the title of the thread off like 25 characters so your eye is constantly going left and right instead of just straight down scanning the first few words. terrible user experience. i've learned to completely ignore poll threads.

8080 finally someone with eyes weighs in

― lfam, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

poll threads are just visual noise to me

― lfam, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

You know how to decide this? WITH A POLL!!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

the first poll on the new I LOVE POLLS board

― lfam, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

look, polling is great when you don't want nuance and an interesting comparison between several choices but unfortunately we are not electing the commander in chief of northern european melodic music

― lfam, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:59 (eighteen years ago)

There were several not particularly melodic acts in those polls. What they did have in common is they had either had some commercial success outside of their home country or some attention among (normal - not genre-specific) critics.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

[i}but unfortunately we are not electing the commander in chief of northern european melodic music[/i]

Good idea. I'll nominate Luke Haines.

More polls and more lists. Anti-list November was so boring it literally broke the old site.

― kornrulez6969, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

roffles

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

aspergerssyndrome.jpg

― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

no list november was the bomb shit, you clown

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

2006 list:

1. nov

12. jan-oct, dec

― rps, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

ALSO, CAN WE PLEASE HAVE SIMPLE HTML BACK? THOSE STUPID BRACKETS ARE WAY TOO HARD TO TYPE AND I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO CLICK THE CONVERT TO BB CODE EVERY TIME!!!

PLEASE!!!

YESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― s1ocki, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

Look -- people are going kind of nuts with the polls right now because it's new and fresh and fun in a different sort of way. Eventually the glossy sheen will wear off, and things will settle down. There will still be the occasional poll, but people will go back to arguing over semantics in their favorite genre of choice. So calm down. Either ignore them, or join in. It's fun!

― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

Poll to ban Jeff Treppel. all in say aye!

― jaxon, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

"new and fresh and fun"

no.

― elmo argonaut, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:09 (eighteen years ago)

Aye! Wait, what?

― Jeff Treppel, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

The problem with the poll results is that they attempt to resolve issues of taste that are meant to be disputed, bitterly, without end.

― elmo argonaut, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

the problem with most of the recent polls is that they're really boring! blue oyster cult? led zeppelin? are we on fidonet circa 1989? who am i?

discography arguments in particular bore and frustrate me - everyone brings in their entire mass of preference, judgment, blind spots, desire, apprehension - all the things that make up what you think about music, all the things that are interesting - and then studiously bury them as far down as possible, pausing only to say "houses of the holy is very overlooked" then someone says "it's not overlooked, in fact it's over-rated!" and it all becomes about reputations, whether certain albums are "deserving" or not, like some old professor of russian literature who just goes on and on about turgenev getting too much respect in the 1910's but then his star falling a couple of decades later. that could be interesting if you're going to draw inferences about society and how values in culture shape opinions about music but that's not really happening on these poll threads.

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

The problem with the poll results is that they attempt to resolve issues of taste that are meant to be disputed, bitterly, without end.

OTM. If you want to decide the best Beatles album (FFS, do you HAVE to), start a OPO thread, which might get some actual debate and discussion. Polls as implemented right now are an opporuntity to cast an anonymous vote which you don't have to justify, and which needn't be informed by previous debate. This makes them dumb and reductive. This is certainly why I skip them, and I guess why a lot of other people scroll right past them. We treat them as noise rather than signal.

I suspect people will get bored of starting them eventually and no code solution is needed, but honestly, stop fucking starting them.

― caek, Saturday, 14 April 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

If you don't like them just ignore them. I don't see the need to tell everyone not to start them. If you're skipping them then it really shouldn't be annoying you.
If it's the fact that it comes up in red that's annoying people then that's not the poll starters fault. That can be changed easily I'm sure.

And yeah I think people will get bored. The poll function has been there a while now and this week is the 1st time it's been used so much. Things will settle down again.

Not everyone is going to like all the threads. Whether it's polls or not. If you don't like something skip it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 14 April 2007 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

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:) :) :)

― gr8080, Sunday, 12 August 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago)

NEVAH

― marmotwolof, Sunday, 12 August 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago)

You know, it's a lot more fun having one Now poll a week or every few days rather than three or four all started at once...

― Matt DC, Monday, 20 August 2007 11:26 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah tbh it is getting beyond ridic at this point.

― Trayce, Monday, 20 August 2007 11:28 (seventeen years ago)

(I am pro-Now polls incidentally but I'd rather have the back and forth of arguing over one in detail than spreading the same group of posters over four threads at once).

― Matt DC, Monday, 20 August 2007 11:30 (seventeen years ago)

Yeah, if they keep up at this rate, there won't be any more crappy corporate compilations or ass-backward "worst-of" lists to poll motherfuckers about.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 20 August 2007 11:30 (seventeen years ago)

i don't want to hide polls coz some of them are good, but fucksake geir stop spamming.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 20 August 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

bump

ILM has been taken over by polls. i like polls, so i don't want to turn off that preference. just asking if we can slow it down as there are way too many polls at the moment.

― Bee OK, Thursday, 4 October 2007 01:27 (seventeen years ago)

just checked out the 'hide polls' option. pretty good!

― haitch, Thursday, 4 October 2007 01:49 (seventeen years ago)

it'd be good if you could keep polls on ILE but hide them on ILX, the polls over there are usually better.

― haitch, Thursday, 4 October 2007 01:51 (seventeen years ago)

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 4 October 2007 02:11 (seventeen years ago)

unicorns

― sleep, Thursday, 4 October 2007 05:07 (seventeen years ago)

I didn't know about that "hide polls" option. Niiiice!

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 4 October 2007 05:08 (seventeen years ago)

sorry, "keep polls on ILE but hide them on ILM". oops.

― haitch, Thursday, 4 October 2007 06:55 (seventeen years ago)

three months pass...

Slow the fuck down people, I'm sure you can wait a week to find the best band from Chipping Sodbury.

― Matt DC, Friday, 1 February 2008 12:32 (seventeen years ago)

They forgot "The Rotorvators" AND "Emil and the Detectives" !!!

― Mark G, Friday, 1 February 2008 12:34 (seventeen years ago)

This is 2008, not 1908, keep up grandad!

― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 1 February 2008 12:52 (seventeen years ago)

i guess the only interesting thing about the regions polls is how you get one and then several people decide to start their own in response, as if it would never have occurred to anyone otherwise or happened any other way. just mad flurries rather than a spaced out but more consistent stream. happens with a lot of things on ILX tho, not just polls.

― blueski, Friday, 1 February 2008 12:56 (seventeen years ago)

You've got to have all the regional heats though before you move into the national finals. Followed by the champions league and world club championships. If I were you I'd get your bets in now for Tiger from Princes Risborough to go all the way.

― NickB, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:03 (seventeen years ago)

I hope that when we eventually get to Best Of London we have the nous to do it by postcode.

― Dingbod Kesterson, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:10 (seventeen years ago)

never heard of London. is it near Wales?

― Thomas, Friday, 1 February 2008 13:15 (seventeen years ago)

I was thinking the best way to do London would be five polls: North, South, East, West, Home Counties. Really can't be arsed to do it myself though.

― chap, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:38 (seventeen years ago)

I realise proposing five polls isn't really in the spirit of this thread.

― chap, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:40 (seventeen years ago)

there aren't any bands from London

― blueski, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:48 (seventeen years ago)

London Beat vs. London Boys

― NickB, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:52 (seventeen years ago)

Having to include 200 minor league grime MCs and hardcore/dnb outfits would make the East London poll a bit of a schlep.

― Matt DC, Friday, 1 February 2008 15:58 (seventeen years ago)

Globe Town Brrrap Mans FTW

― blueski, Friday, 1 February 2008 16:11 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

um...

― scott seward, Monday, 5 October 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago)

There is the "Hide Polls" option in Preferences.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 5 October 2009 17:33 (fifteen years ago)

is there a "Hide Polls about Rate Your Music" option?

― yellow card for favre (call all destroyer), Monday, 5 October 2009 21:42 (fifteen years ago)

yeah, i only want to hide the stupid polls

― somewhere a poll is missing its wacky write-in vote (sarahel), Monday, 5 October 2009 21:42 (fifteen years ago)

tell me ilx is at least getting $$ from that website for this

― autogoon delight (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 October 2009 21:46 (fifteen years ago)

dear polls,

go away for awhile, take an ilx break. come back in 2010, and i'll see you in the new year,

― Mr. Que, Monday, 5 October 2009 21:48 (fifteen years ago)

no, it's just a couple of people being spammy and stupid

Please note that these polls are getting dropped off of new answers and to those starting them, if you continue to create more of them you will be first yellowcarded and then temp-banned for spamming. It would likely not be that big of a deal had we not had what seems like a bazillion threads all at once.

― The Book of Outhere (HI DERE), Monday, 5 October 2009 21:49 (fifteen years ago)

dear Q,

have you eaten pizza recently? i would just like to politely remind you that pizza is a delicious food product.

sincerely,

pizza

― somewhere a poll is missing its wacky write-in vote (sarahel), Monday, 5 October 2009 21:49 (fifteen years ago)

how about the overlords at least enforce some sort of start no more than five threads a day kinda thing. hell, i'm a drunk, and even i could live with that. they used to delete threads if people started too many way back when.

― scott seward, Monday, 5 October 2009 21:50 (fifteen years ago)

oh okay x-post

― scott seward, Monday, 5 October 2009 21:50 (fifteen years ago)

how about I Love WWE becomes I Love Rate Your Music

i mean, how would this not appease everyone? i could turn off the answers from this board so my site new answers would be flushed of this shit & the rate your music brigade will have their own little playground that no one can complain about

― autogoon delight (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 October 2009 21:52 (fifteen years ago)

lol good idea but i sort of don't want to validate that anyone can learn anything from fuckin rate your music.

― yellow card for favre (call all destroyer), Monday, 5 October 2009 21:53 (fifteen years ago)

just put them here http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=78

― carne asada, Monday, 5 October 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago)

xp - though they'd probably start a bunch of these polls on ILM so that more people would vote; it's like the sex threads on ILE vs. ILTMI problem

― somewhere a poll is missing its wacky write-in vote (sarahel), Monday, 5 October 2009 21:55 (fifteen years ago)

can i just....

if we take the "your music" to mean, "your collection of music that you chose to have" WHY WOULD YOU NEED TO RATE IT? PRESUMABLY YOU LIKE IT ENOUGH TO HAVE IT.

sry had to get that out.

― yellow card for favre (call all destroyer), Monday, 5 October 2009 21:55 (fifteen years ago)

thank you for saying that

― somewhere a poll is missing its wacky write-in vote (sarahel), Monday, 5 October 2009 21:55 (fifteen years ago)

how about I Love WWE becomes I Love Rate Your Music

somewhere in britain, a scarfed northampton town fan of italian descent suffers a coronary

― kell surprise (country matters), Monday, 5 October 2009 21:56 (fifteen years ago)

this is like if fdr had the chance to launch all the nazis to another planet, a golden opportunity here imo

― autogoon delight (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 October 2009 21:57 (fifteen years ago)

i mean we would effectively be banning geir hongro from ILM

i still haven't heard one good reason against I Love Rate Your Music

― autogoon delight (J0rdan S.), Monday, 5 October 2009 21:57 (fifteen years ago)

dear Q,

have you eaten pizza recently? i would just like to politely remind you that pizza is a delicious food product.

sincerely,

pizza

dear pizza, we talked on Saturday, i ate you then. WTF, why are you writing me on Monday. Quit stalking me,

― Mr. Que, Monday, 5 October 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago)

re rateyourmusic: it would be kind of interesting if the only degree to which you could rate stuff was "i still like this record and understand why i bought it" vs "i no longer like this record and am not glad that i own a copy" -- the results would be more interesting than learning that, you know, more people like than dislike kind of blue

― thomp, Monday, 5 October 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago)

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

― sleeve, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 00:00 (fifteen years ago)

ten months pass...

fart

― am0n, Wednesday, 11 August 2010 21:58 (fourteen years ago)

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