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I've been tossing this idea about for awhile now and basically it is whether or not we should have a set forum for polls?
The positives:
1) You'd always know where to find the polls, in the polls forum, should make finding past polls easier.
2) For new members they could go to the polls forum and start at the beginning and answer all past polls they were interested in and read the results.
The negatives:
1) People who post polls elsewhere would have their polls moved to the polls forum and the polls forum may not be read by as many people as say the Cayman Chat forum is.
2) Poll topics would all be mixed into one forum, so a poll on modifications that otherwise might be in the mods forum would only be in the polls forum, or a poll on wheels and tires wouldn't be in the wheels and tires forum it would be in the polls forum.
Do I need to start a poll to see which option people would favor?
In my head I worked out a sort of compromise that I think combines the best of the best and alleviates some of the concerns, see if you can follow along.
1) Polls would be posted in the appropriate forum, wheels polls in wheel forum, etc.
2) After 30 days the poll would be moved to the polls forum leaving a permanent redirect to the polls forum in the original forum.
The only "problem" with this is that it requires the moderators and myself to do more work: A) we have to notice that a poll has been around longer than 30 days and B) we need to actively move it and leave a permanent redirect.
I am not in favor of this since some polls that I have seen need to be in certain sub forums. I think that mixing them all together will be too confusing and make it difficult to find the topic/poll you might be looking for if it is lost in a jumbled mess of many topics.
If there' s a way for a thread to appear in both the subject-relevant forum and a just-polls forum, that would also be a compromise of sorts. The polls would be collected in one place, which as rlm328 notes, would cut down on repeats/overlaps. But they would also stay in the relevant forum, which would keep them visible where they ought to be.
If there' s a way for a thread to appear in both the subject-relevant forum and a just-polls forum, that would also be a compromise of sorts. The polls would be collected in one place, which as rlm328 notes, would cut down on repeats/overlaps. But they would also stay in the relevant forum, which would keep them visible where they ought to be.
I guess people don't understand redirects.
If a poll is posted in say Cayman Chat, it would stay there 30 days, after which it would be replaced with a redirect to the polls forum that would point to that specific poll. The poll itself would then reside in the polls forum, but if you went to Cayman Chat you could still search/find the redirect to the poll there which would then point you to the polls forum and the appropriate poll.
Well, if you go to the store, the absorbents aren't all stored together. They are stored within the category where you would expect to find them.
Paper towels are with paper products. Cat litter is with pet stuff.
So, I think the polls should be where they are. After 30 days, move them so that there can be a big collection of polls? That is an idea. Isn't there simply a key to search on that would cull them all together?
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Isn't there simply a key to search on that would cull them all together?
It's actually an even better situation than that, because polls are structured components of posts. A script could be written that would run nightly and move any poll more than 30 days old that hasn't been moved yet. This could be made quite efficient since there is (presumably - I've only worked with phpbb2) a table of polls, to which a column can be added that allows reverse lookup of the topic the poll appears in. A column for poll start date-time can also be added, if it isn't already there. Using these two columns, I believe some pretty easy SQL can find the poll topics that need to be moved, and do it. Might require subqueries, which is dependent on having a decent RDBMS, but in a scripted environment subqueries are easy enough to fake.
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