I've been working on a new feature that will allow us to create Polls to ask questions and help make decisions on the site. You can test it out here: http://www.caedes.net/Zephir.cgi?lib=Poll. The eventual idea is that it can be used to allow the members to make decisions about how the site will work and for those changes to be automatically put in place when the poll "finishes". have fun playing with it, and let me know if you find any problems or have any feature requests.

Some features that I'm already planning:

- Allow voting on multiple items at once.
- Allow the creator of a poll to edit it.
- Set the ending time for a poll (e.g. "3 days from now").

Me make poll.

Poll work good good.

Can me haz cookie, now? Plox?

Awesome ! I got to leave a comment & everything ! I said cookies should be outlawed & only Godiva Chocolates allowed on the site to be doled out my yours truly.

Better make nice to me people !

muahahaha !!

*that was for effect only*

Good idea.. just as long as its not a poll asking how many licks it takes Lauren to finish and ice cream.. lol Looks like the "test" works fine

The only thing I would say is that I noticed the poll results are showing at all times. That might discourage people from voting (say if there's 100 votes for yes and 3 votes for no, then there's really no point in voting) or it could sway someone to vote a certain way. Can that be changed so the results only show up after someone has voted?

Well maybe not, if a poll results are skewed that badly, but still if you felt very strongly about something wouldn't you vote anyway ? I would.

no, I would want to be in the winning percentile .. juvenile, and infantile though it might be


If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi

Looks good. I do wonder how you would prevent too many polls running at the same time and also prevent the same polls being posted by different members.

Would polls be sorted into categories like the forums?

Or ...

Being inundated by polls precariously perched before prying eyes, authored by trolls?

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That thought will keep me up at night, now. :o|