CrateCruncher
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Ken, I understand and fully support everything you just said. But, by your own logic, the poll IS generating interest if it is continuing to attract new votes. It seems to me that because a member can only vote once, a poll that continues to attract votes is MORE popular than a normal discussion thread where a few people are posting over and over. Yet the RCU poll policy is to let it slip as if there is no activity. My point is that there seems to be a rare inconsistency here.
Polls are surveys. They are used to collect data, not discussion. If a poll generates a large amount of discussion then theres probably something wrong with the design of the poll or it was ill suited to the application.
Perhaps a compromise is to force a short expiration in the RCU poll template (say, 1 or 2 weeks) while allowing the poll to bump to the top when a new vote is cast. In this way the poll will remain visible only while votes are being cast (or someone posts a comment) but after expiration must rely on discussion to bump. That way it will not hang around past the point where people grow tired of seeing it.
Sorry if I've generated controversy here but I put a lot of thought into this poll and tried to design it based on my experience in product marketing using qualitative discussion to explore and narrow the choices before the poll was created. There is no need for discussion within the quantitative poll. I won't do any more polls until this inconsistency is addressed somehow. 
< Message edited by CrateCruncher -- 7/24/2008 4:08:05 PM >
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