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Snow Dog 
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 Posted: February 12 2011 at 02:58 |
One or two a day would be enough.
And gandalf, no more polls till next year.
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Easy Livin
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Joined: February 21 2004
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Posted: February 12 2011 at 03:39 |
I think the polls section is being spoilt by both the quality and the quality of polls. Too many are poorly thought out, with random unrelated bands or albums being pitted against each other, often on a one to one basis.
The volume of polls means that the interesting ones are being buried.
Personally, I'd like to see a distinction between frivolous polls and ones which have been carefully considered. How to do that though is another story!
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Snow Dog
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Posted: February 12 2011 at 03:44 |
 Easy Livin wrote:
I think the polls section is being spoilt by both the quality and the quality of polls. Too many are poorly thought out, with random unrelated bands or albums being pitted against each other, often on a one to one basis.
The volume of polls means that the interesting ones are being buried.
Personally, I'd like to see a distinction between frivolous polls and ones which have been carefully considered. How to do that though is another story! |
had a long answer to this but it failed to post. 
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Snow Dog
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Posted: February 12 2011 at 03:47 |
I'll try again and see if I can repeat the gist.
That's why limiting to one poll every 24 hours would be good. Some members make 5 or more polls at the same time, burying the occasional "good" poll by a member who does them rarely but comes up with something interesting.
That wasn't so long this time. i must have waffled on a bit before.
Edited by Snow Dog - February 12 2011 at 03:48
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Atavachron
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Posted: February 12 2011 at 03:57 |
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I think we all know how painful taking a pole can be, one a day is more than enough.
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Dean
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Joined: May 13 2007
Location: Europe
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Posted: February 12 2011 at 04:49 |
You don't win anything for getting the right answer. That's frustrating, I wanna a prize for knowing stuff and clicking boxes and stuff. "so the nominations for best beat combo with saxomophone are (in reverse order) Generator, Graaf, Der, Van .... and the winner is ...King Crimson" - yay! What did I win, "Well on the conveyor belt tonight there is a grand piano; a reed and pipe organ; a glockenspiel; a bass guitar; a double speed guitar; two slightly distorted guitars; a mandolin! a Spanish guitar and introducing acoustic guitar, plus... tubular bells" Oh noes I wanted the alabaster plaster caster's coaster toaster, "So, we asked a 100 proggers 'who is better than DT' ... you said 'a banana', our survey said. ... XXXX ... sorry that's not one of the options, our top answer was 'an amoeba'" Okay, I'll take Canterbury for $800
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Snow Dog
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Posted: February 12 2011 at 04:58 |
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Thanks Dean, you cheered me up.
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Slartibartfast
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Joined: April 29 2006
Location: Atlantais
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Posted: February 12 2011 at 08:06 |
Easy Livin wrote:
I think the polls section is being spoilt by both the quality and the quality of polls. Too many are poorly thought out, with random unrelated bands or albums being pitted against each other, often on a one to one basis.
The volume of polls means that the interesting ones are being buried.
Personally, I'd like to see a distinction between frivolous polls and ones which have been carefully considered. How to do that though is another story! |
I'm with you on that. The best thing to do is not participate in those because you're only encouraging them. My main gripe about polls and threads is the titleing that people use. If you're going to discuss a particular holiday, tack a year on it. Don't start a poll where many other versions are possible without sticking your name in it. I was guilty of doing polls on my random loads but decided a blog was more appropriate.
Edited by Slartibartfast - February 12 2011 at 08:42
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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DisgruntledPorcupine
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Location: Thunder Bay CAN
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Posted: February 12 2011 at 11:12 |
I say we give Gandalff his own section. 
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The T
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Posted: February 12 2011 at 11:54 |
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: February 12 2011 at 12:20 |
Atavachron wrote:
I think we all know how painful taking a pole can be, one a day is more than enough.
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this
DisgruntledPorcupine wrote:
I say we give Gandalff his own section.  |
and this
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lazland
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Joined: October 28 2008
Location: Wales
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Posted: February 12 2011 at 13:10 |
This is easily the most popular poll Gandalff has been involved in, except, strangely, he hasn't even appeared here 
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thellama73
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Posted: February 12 2011 at 13:28 |
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It's one less than whatever Gadalff does in a given day.
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Jörgemeister
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Location: Nauticus
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Posted: February 12 2011 at 18:41 |
" However many Gandalff makes"
1 is enough.
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I Could have bought a Third World country with the riches that I've spent
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CPicard
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Location: Là, sui monti.
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Posted: February 12 2011 at 21:00 |
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None poll should be tolerated, not even the "general polls". The whole "poll" section of the forum should be erased or, at least, moved to the North or the South, so we could make stupid jokes about the North poll and the South poll.
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let prog reign
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Location: South Carolina
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Posted: February 13 2011 at 10:13 |
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I must say, this is pretty funny
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Once upon a time there was some writing on the wall we all ignored, until the time that there was war and feasts of famine at our door
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Vompatti
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Posted: February 13 2011 at 10:42 |
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I prefer polls to discussions. Voted for "1".
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Conor Fynes
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Posted: February 16 2011 at 04:09 |
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Can we settle with 42 and move on with our lives?
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