Are you more likely to view a poll than other forum items? - Off-Topic

Edited 2 months, 22 days ago

Are you more likely to view a poll than other forum items? (38 votes)

Yes 68%

No 32%

I've noticed that even when I'm not feeling up to forum perusing I still will hit all the polls and vote. That tag now allows me to easily skim the threads for the polls, making it very easy. I was wondering if anyone else did the same.

#1 Posted by Nightriff (2879 posts) - 2 months, 22 days ago

I look for threads that have few comments on and try and contribute, rather write a message than just click: yes, no, P4, Charlie Tunoku, PS4 only, etc

#2 Edited by Wacomole (739 posts) - 2 months, 22 days ago

Much, MUCH less likely in my case.

EDIT: To elaborate, I'm less likely to view polls as opposed to other posts as a much of the time the subjects tend to be less interesting and sometimes downright off-putting.

Often, when I do go into a poll I tend to only leave a comment and not bother with the actual poll part.

#3 Edited by YoungFrey (1209 posts) - 2 months, 22 days ago

For me, I think part of it is that once a thread rolls on to page two, the number of people that will even anything to write is really low. But with a poll, your vote always matter as much as anyone elses. I'm also much more likely to take the time to respond to a post with very few comments.

#4 Posted by ReCkLeSs_X (260 posts) - 2 months, 22 days ago

I was just doing this... and found this poll.

#5 Posted by Pr1mus (2417 posts) - 2 months, 22 days ago

I guess. I view every poll and i don't view every other threads. But then there are fewer polls than regular threads. See what you did? Now i'm confused.

#6 Posted by YoungFrey (1209 posts) - 2 months, 22 days ago

I'm not even saying I think polls are amazing. Just that most people don't have the time to examine every thread and try to get engaged. While the effort of hitting a pole and just voting is very low. So seeing which post is a poll will naturally lead to more polls (for better or ill).

#7 Posted by 49th (1785 posts) - 2 months, 22 days ago

No, I don't really notice the thing on the side. I guess I usually click on threads which are questions though, which is why I clicked on this.

#8 Posted by jdh5153 (695 posts) - 2 months, 22 days ago

Nope. Don't really like polls, they never seem to have much purpose, just a bunch of random nonsense and people arguing. Or a bunch of posts "hey I voted for this one, that's all bye now".