This should have been exposed from the submit link.
I believe this is a not so subtle way to discourage gratuitous use of polls. I, for one, think that having it be an invisible feature is a great win for human decency--the knowledge that it is there prevents people from "vote up if" posts, but having it hidden doesn't remind people constantly that they can run polls to their heart's content. Since polls are almost universally free of useful content, but people still love to create them, this is, perhaps, the best that can be done.
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How do you post polls?
I'm in like...the top 250...I should be able to.
http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
Thanks! I wanted this so many times earlier. Never figured how to post a poll.
This should have been exposed from the submit link.
This should have been exposed from the submit link.
I believe this is a not so subtle way to discourage gratuitous use of polls. I, for one, think that having it be an invisible feature is a great win for human decency--the knowledge that it is there prevents people from "vote up if" posts, but having it hidden doesn't remind people constantly that they can run polls to their heart's content. Since polls are almost universally free of useful content, but people still love to create them, this is, perhaps, the best that can be done.