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Weekly Polls
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 5:27 pm
by s.dot
It seems these often don't get updated every week.
I propose a suggestion of pre-writing err.. 52? polls (1 year) along with the answers and save them in a database. Then a cron could update the site every week.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 5:38 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Go ahead sparky. When you get all 52 of them done, PM me with them so I can get them in the queue.
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 5:39 pm
by s.dot
I suggest, and mods do the work.
My part here is done!
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 5:47 pm
by RobertGonzalez
scottayy wrote:I suggest, and mods do the work.
My part here is done!
Well hell, that is a sure fire way to not get anything you want done.

Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 5:54 pm
by Luke
we've discussed the weekly polls and how they could stay more current... it's always resulted in basically this:
Go ahead sparky.
and then everybody just sort of looks around for sparky.
Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 6:30 pm
by s.dot
So, why not start a topic, asking the members for poll titles they'd like to see, along with 4-8 possible answers for each. Gather a good amount of them. Save them in a table. Make a simple script. Put it on a weekly cronjob.
Everyone could be sparky.
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Posted: Wed May 30, 2007 6:47 pm
by superdezign
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Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 8:04 am
by Chris Corbyn
I like the idea of letting users suggest polls. How about once a month we make a sticky in here and we collect ideas to use for next month's polls?
Currently the routine is this:
One of us realizes the weekly poll is out of date and quickly asks for ideas from the other mods.
One or two people post and idea or two (but never more

) and then modify the options a little.
Belated weekly poll posted here...
I'm quite happy to have that change since with a small moderator team it's only going to be a matter of time before ideas dry out

Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 9:11 am
by TheMoose
I think we should have a poll to see which weekly poll wins for the upcoming week.

Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 9:15 am
by superdezign
If they did that, they'd still have to come up with multiple polling topics.
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 10:20 am
by RobertGonzalez
+1 d11's idea.
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 11:48 am
by Jenk
Just conjur up a 52 long list of hotties with the question: "How hard would you hit it?" and the options:
"I'd miss."
"I'd just about tap it."
"I'd spank it."
"Bullseye!"
"Set phasers to 'HIT IT'!"
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:02 am
by ptrpan
Jenk wrote:Just conjur up a 52 long list of hotties with the question: "How hard would you hit it?" and the options:
"I'd miss."
"I'd just about tap it."
"I'd spank it."
"Bullseye!"
"Set phasers to 'HIT IT'!"
Sounds just about right to me.

Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:10 am
by onion2k
Jenk wrote:Just conjur up a 52 long list of hotties with the question: "How hard would you hit it?" and the options:
"I'd miss."
"I'd just about tap it."
"I'd spank it."
"Bullseye!"
"Set phasers to 'HIT IT'!"
/me writes script to automatically vote in polls because my answer would never change.