IMO it's a good feature. First you can see the results quickly and in a convenient way, there will not be a lot of comments in the "a", "b", "me to", "hope i get some karma" way and we will not have to count, i.e.: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126360 would be clease using this feature.
Also, post will act as a catalyst (as if we need one...) to discuss, and this is good ;)
And finally it stops mangling with the karma to vote.
May I ask an extra feature? I think it would be useful to display the total number of votes, and maybe even the percentage of each option.
Unfortunately, so far I've seen just the opposite. Other than this one, the comments on most of the polls I've seen (both here and elsewhere, now that I think about it) have just been the poster stating what choice he chose with little else. Even the poll on "When do you upvote an article," which I expected to be very promising discussion-wise, has little going for it after 8 hours.
I think this is a result of the fact that names are no longer associated with votes with the explicit polling system. In more frank terms, people no longer get their burst of vanity from "voting," and thus many replace it by shouting their vote out loud. In previous polls, many would post a more complex response to the prompt in their own words, along with a few thoughts. While we'd get plenty of the '"a," "b," "me too"' comments (glad I'm not the only one to detest those), they'd at least be at the bottom of an interesting thread rather than the top of a shoutfest.
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IMO it's a good feature. First you can see the results quickly and in a convenient way, there will not be a lot of comments in the "a", "b", "me to", "hope i get some karma" way and we will not have to count, i.e.: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126360 would be clease using this feature.
Also, post will act as a catalyst (as if we need one...) to discuss, and this is good ;)
And finally it stops mangling with the karma to vote.
May I ask an extra feature? I think it would be useful to display the total number of votes, and maybe even the percentage of each option.
Unfortunately, so far I've seen just the opposite. Other than this one, the comments on most of the polls I've seen (both here and elsewhere, now that I think about it) have just been the poster stating what choice he chose with little else. Even the poll on "When do you upvote an article," which I expected to be very promising discussion-wise, has little going for it after 8 hours.
I think this is a result of the fact that names are no longer associated with votes with the explicit polling system. In more frank terms, people no longer get their burst of vanity from "voting," and thus many replace it by shouting their vote out loud. In previous polls, many would post a more complex response to the prompt in their own words, along with a few thoughts. While we'd get plenty of the '"a," "b," "me too"' comments (glad I'm not the only one to detest those), they'd at least be at the bottom of an interesting thread rather than the top of a shoutfest.