Should we have more polls on ILM?

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You know what ILM needs? Some poll chatter threads, that's what it needs.

I wish you could vote for more than one thing.
-- blueski, Friday, April 20, 2007 10:15 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark Link

^^^^^^this. seriously, is it within ILX's technical capabilities to have some more sophisticated polling options? it'd be great to have polls where you can put in a ballot with a #1 and #2 and etc., or actually be able to write in what your write-in option would be. so many polls are more boring/frustrating/unrepresentative than they could be because of the limitations of the kind of poll we're stuck with.

its a shame we don't have more exciting/satisfying/representative polls on a music forum.

yes how will we ever get cited in undergrad humanities essays without an accurate polling system?

surely the elves in charge could improve the quality of our masturbatory meta nonsense.

i'm just saying, clearly polls on ILM, and their continued popularity, aren't going anywhere anytime soon, might as well ask if it's possible to make them better.

interesting logic.

"christ, mom, if you're gonna make me desert, at least put some effort into it."

dessert

now that's interesting logic. are you saying i'm being ungrateful about the poll technology the mods brought us by demanding more? or that i'm being silly by asking for improvements in something i don't like to begin with (for the record, i don't dislike polls at all, or at least not as much as a lot of people seem to).

so many polls are more boring/frustrating/unrepresentative than they could be because of the limitations of the kind of poll we're stuck with.

no you know what? we need better polls. "What's the second best song on Rush's Signals" just doesn't cut it.

haha i guess that phrasing is a bit awkward, should've been "less [positive adjectives] than they could be" etc.

(xpost Mr. Que also correct)

We need to know which album on the P'n'J poll of 1996 ILX REALLY thinks his the sixth best.

DJ Shadow's Private Press sits with O votes and I'm like "I KNOW THIS IS WRONG. DO SOMETHING, MODS!"

(of course, I'm not helping with my dumbass LOL VAGINA VIDEO poll, but whatever. ILM needs some humor sometimes.)

first we improve the polls. Then we can laugh.

and then we take Berlin.

not saying a couple updates to the code would suddenly make the poll results scientifically airtight, they're always going to be more of a laugh/conversation starter than anything else. but do you disagree that it'd make for better or more accurate results if we were able to vote for a top 5 or top 10 ballot in those things? how skewed would P&J itself be if each critic could only vote once for one album?

(xpost no Mr. Que, your Group Sounds poll was really one of the best poll threads ever. i'd vote for it in a poll thread poll thread.)

perhaps I should start a poll thread about RFTC's Group Sounds to get anthony off my case.

I agree that the results of a poll asking ILXors to suggest which albums in a previous years' Pazz'n'Jop poll are the best would be more accurate if we were able to vote for a top five ballot.

We should install this, and then do every poll over again for several months. Or we could just bend over in front of a mirror and take a picture between our legs and find out what our asshole looks like that way.

hey i'm not pollmaster general here, i don't totally understand what drives the dudes who do weekly P&J poll threads to do all those. i've started maybe a couple polls and usually vote and post a couple times in other people's polls to argue some boring point, but i don't think making some suggestions about how the polls are made makes me some poll-worshipping aspie with nothing better to do than obsess about the fact that I can't vote for 2 options. poll poll poll.

hey, you're the one that said you found polls "frustrating/unrepresentative"!

i get that you're being a dick, i do the same thing on this board all the time, but you're definitely being more purposefully dense about this than i'm being earnestly dense.

The UK Top 50 of 1981
The UK Top 50 of 1982 Poll

awful

Favourite Velvet Underground album (with extra facility)
Second Favourite Velvet Underground album
Third Favourite Velvet Underground album
etc...

Trying to add functionality...

http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/KBQB_blog/ali.jpg

don't get on the net, whining about every damn thing, if you can't handle a fucking zing

yay another person who doesn't 'get' zings

I agree that the results of a poll asking ILXors to suggest which albums in a previous years' Pazz'n'Jop poll are the best would be more accurate if we were able to vote for a top five ballot.

We should install this, and then do every poll over again for several months. Or we could just bend over in front of a mirror and take a picture between our legs and find out what our asshole looks like that way.

-- da croupier, Thursday, November 8, 2007 4:29 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

HO SNAP

YA BURNT

interesting approach, Mark. see, all i'm saying, it'd be cool to do that all in one thread without all the legwork Mark put into it. if the polls are all just silly masturbation meta converstation-starters, they might as well be easier to conform to whatever our poll-starting whimsy is on any given day.

(xpost responding semi-seriously instead of turning it into a zing contest =/ being thin-skinned about zings or not 'getting' zings)

i mean, i'm laughing, would probably be laughing more if he was zinging someone other than me, but it's cool. like i said, i'm a dick in the same way to people here all the time.

oh i fucked that up. i meant anthony didn't get zings.

haha oh ok. so in essense, i was being thin-skinned/paranoid, after all.

and can't spell "essence"

we should have a poll to see which poll was the worst poll

There is an option for that in this poll. Hence I voted for that. :)

alex otm re: more intricate polling options.

Improving the options would always be a good thing I reckon. Not always neccessary, but could be in a few cases.

Like it should be possible to allow people to vote for as many track as the poll starter feels like. This, for instance, would have given more people the chance to vote for more tracks from "Something Else By The Kinds" besides the obvious landslide winner "Waterloo Sunset".

I promise to raise the bar with further terrible lyric polls as soon as i get the chance.

looks like miccio learned a thing or two from his many pointless confrontations with james blount

This thread is paying dividends I didn't even know were possible.

geir the last thing we need to is rewrite the code to encourage you to make more polls.

Should we have more Geir on ILM?

make geir the mod of I Poll Everything and let's all move on w/ our lives.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Transferable_Vote

That is all.

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lol 2007 humor

did omar's zing send miccio packing for good?

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