Polls

[andrewducker]

I just posted a poll over on LJ.

I didn't post it here, because I regularly get over a hundred votes in polls on LJ, and I doubt that I have that many people over here that would vote on it.

However - to test this theory:

Poll #5511

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 14

View Respondents

If the poll had been posted over here I would have voted in it.

View Answers

Yes
14 (100.0%)

No
0 (0.0%)

If only polls worked in both places - but I can't think of a simple method of doing that.

Comments

[miss_s_b]

For reference, I voted for what my first working day would have been had I not been off sick.

And if you post a poll on here you get a link in your LJ crosspost, but LJ users are so lazy and insular that they won't go to another site for ANYTHIIIIIING

(hopes that jokeyness came across in that last paragraph)

((is probably making things worse by adding more brackets))

[andrewducker]

BRACKETS=WIN!

And yeah, I don't use Cuts for the same reason - people can't be arsed clicking through to something. Me included. I assume that if someone put something behind a cut then it wasn't that important.

[miss_s_b]

I only use cuts for spoilers.

[draigwen]

I've started reading cuts more on Dreamwidth now that you can open them up on the page. Before then it was rare that I'd look behind a cut unless it was something I knew I'd be particularly interested in.

[draigwen]

I only voted on it over there because I knew you wouldn't have been able to crosspost from here.

[matgb]

I can think of a way polls can be posted in both places, but it means messing around with embedding, and I suspect would require cooperation between both sites, which is unlikely.

I may ask around a bit when I've time and spoons to see how technically daft my idea is, I would actually really like it if paid users can embed polls off site with a clear OpenID/Oauth login system for the poll directly.

Mostly because the DW implementation of polls is now even better than LJs, and I always thought that was the best online polling systemI've encountered. DW has hit many many bugs with hammers, and added nifty extra features whihc I really ought to use more often.

[andrewducker]

That would be awesome, because the DW stuff is better, but while the polls are running 9 to 75, I'll be sticking to LJ...

[matgb]

Aye, getting poll votes is even harder than comments, partially as a result of the UI (you get to a DW poll, if not logged in, it shows the results and has no indication you can interract with it in any way).

I've tried multiple workarounds, and coded several for Jennie (Because we also want OpenID people to vote, enough of them read and comment), but nothing's working.

So I have to do some actual DW Dev work. Which I don't have the energy for.

[birguslatro]

My reading pattern is to read DW first and then LJ (if I've time). So those who crosspost will mostly receive comments from me on DW, not LJ.

As to cuts - I just open them in a tab, same as if I decide to comment.