NationStates Jolt Archive


Misuse of polling?

HotRodia
19-02-2007, 22:29
I don't see anything actionable in the poll.
Intangelon
19-02-2007, 22:29
The poll in this (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=518563) thread is a 10-option slam on the subject of the thread. The thread purports to be on the XM/Sirius merger, but we get a scant post about how the thread starter doesn't know anything about satellite radio (and yet thinks it sucks).

This is a spam thread and at least needs to be moved if not deleted or de-polled (is that even possible?).

I know it seems like a tiny thing to bring here, but the irresponsible and juvenile use of polls must have struck a nerve. Apologies if I've overreacted.
I V Stalin
19-02-2007, 23:55
I don't see anything actionable in the poll.
No? It looks like trolling to me.

If Sel Appa hadn't bothered with the poll and the OP had said:

I really don't use satellite radio, so I don't really care.

(as it does), and then continued with "Satellite radio "sucks so much that I cringe at the thought of it"" (option 3 on the poll), the thread would be closed because of blatant trolling, surely?

Just my two cents.
Intangelon
20-02-2007, 00:24
I don't see anything actionable in the poll.

Thanks, HR. I wasn't sure, and it's probably just my "old man syndrome" just starting to kick in. I'll abide by your concise and chronologically pre-emptive ruling. Jolt's capacitor is fluxing again.
Euroslavia
20-02-2007, 01:39
No? It looks like trolling to me.

If Sel Appa hadn't bothered with the poll and the OP had said:



(as it does), and then continued with "Satellite radio "sucks so much that I cringe at the thought of it"" (option 3 on the poll), the thread would be closed because of blatant trolling, surely?

Just my two cents.


Borderline, at best, but not really actionable. I concur with HotRodia's statement.