I think the polls here were too soon—among other things, it’s not clear that we want to be quantifying hot takes as opposed to more settled views a week or so after breaking news.
I also suggest the Forum software is just not set up for polling. I think a pol.is could be potentially useful on this topic to identify clusters, or a traditional survey site to allow capturing somewhat more nuanced responses. The existence of strong votes is particularly ill suited to polling where the number of each vote type isn’t disclosed.
Trolls are a concern, although that’s true of both voting and general Forum activity/upvotes. I think one concern with relying on Forum comments to gauge community sentiment is that we’re largely seeing a few dozen people who are either particularly passionate about the particular question at hand or are quite frequent posters. So that’s unlikely to be representative of the broader community.
I think the polls here were too soon—among other things, it’s not clear that we want to be quantifying hot takes as opposed to more settled views a week or so after breaking news.
I also suggest the Forum software is just not set up for polling. I think a pol.is could be potentially useful on this topic to identify clusters, or a traditional survey site to allow capturing somewhat more nuanced responses. The existence of strong votes is particularly ill suited to polling where the number of each vote type isn’t disclosed.
Trolls are a concern, although that’s true of both voting and general Forum activity/upvotes. I think one concern with relying on Forum comments to gauge community sentiment is that we’re largely seeing a few dozen people who are either particularly passionate about the particular question at hand or are quite frequent posters. So that’s unlikely to be representative of the broader community.