Poll

Is the use of forum polling getting out of hand?

No. I love meaningless polls.50%50% - 26
Yes. One more poll and I'm going pollstal!33%33% - 17
WTF is a poll?15%15% - 8
Total: 51
ShotYourSix
Boldly going nowhere...
+196|6716|Las Vegas
Is it just me or what?  I've seen so many freaking polls here about useless crap like:

What is the prettiest medal?
Should there be an award for blah blah blah?
What do you wear on your feet while playing BF2?
When was your main account created?
Are you an active forum BF2s'er? (my award for most useless poll ever)
Should The New Patch Be Beta Tested? (runner up)

Yes I admit, this is yet another useless poll  (in my own defense, it is also my first and last poll).  Please people, before you post yet another useless, meaningless poll, ask yourself the following questions:

Will this poll benefit the community?
Will this poll generate any useful information?
Did I only post this poll because I am bored?
Did I post this poll in a pathetic and futile attempt to gain a few more Karma points?
Do I fully realize that EA/DICE (and most BF2S forum members) care squat about the results of my poll?

I'm sure the mods will agree that there is such a (rare) thing as a useful poll.  On the other hand I would imagine most mods would say that useless polling here on BF2S has reached an epidemic state.  One has only to look at the sheer number of recently locked polls to see evidence of this.

Might I suggest that next time you feel the urge to create yet another mindless poll, perhaps you wait a day or two and see if it still seems meaningful to you.  My guess is that in most cases, it will not.

OK, enough of that then.  Lets hear some CONSTRUCTIVE feedback about the use of polling on BF2S.
jord
Member
+2,382|6675|The North, beyond the wall.
Nope,i love meaningless polls.
Cbass
Kick His Ass!
+371|6691|Howell, Mi USA

jord wrote:

Nope,i love meaningless polls.
like this one? lol

i vote same
https://bf3s.com/sigs/bb53a522780eff5b30ba3252d44932cc2f5b8c4f.png
S3v3N
lolwut?
+685|6515|Montucky
i'm at work so naturally i'm bored.. hence the reason i am here....
PuckMercury
6 x 9 = 42
+298|6524|Portland, OR USA
agreed, since forums are as much to pass the time as provide and semblence of valuable information (this site being an exception, of course) I enjoy polls.  It's a concise and clear way to get a general opinion.  I mean, it beats reading through 10 pages of flames and making a tally sheet from the few decent responses you are lucky enough to get.

I'll tell you what I hate more though, people who post in the wrong section.  Like not kinda wrong, but just plain ridiculously wrong.

Last edited by puckmercury (2006-07-18 14:36:26)

l41e
Member
+677|6645

puckmercury wrote:

agreed, since forums are as much to pass the time as provide and semblence of valuable information (this site being an exception, of course) I enjoy polls.  It's a concise and clear way to get a general opinion.  I mean, it beats reading through 10 pages of flames and making a tally sheet from the few decent responses you are lucky enough to get.

I'll tell you what I hate more though, people who post in the wrong section.  Like not kinda wrong, but just plain ridiculously wrong.
QFT.
Cactusfist
Pusher of sausages Down Hallways
+26|6565
I think his thread was an excuse to use "pollstall"
FFLink
There is.
+1,380|6688|Devon, England
wats pollstall?
[-CGZ-]BioRaveN
Don't make me toothpick you.
+31|6702|The beautiful hills of Sharqi
HAHAH i love that pun pollstal..

he means postal, but he made an intellectual pun which made me laugh... +1

I am sick of them.
PRiMACORD
Member
+190|6622|Home of the Escalade Herds

jord wrote:

Nope,i love meaningless polls.
Polesmoker ¬_¬
[R]age^B-HeKtiC^
You like that, biatch!?
+25|6801|Uk
FFLink
There is.
+1,380|6688|Devon, England
ok, wats postal mean then?
ShotYourSix
Boldly going nowhere...
+196|6716|Las Vegas

FFLink13 wrote:

ok, wats postal mean then?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_postal
FFLink
There is.
+1,380|6688|Devon, England
oh its american, no wonder.
[R]age^B-HeKtiC^
You like that, biatch!?
+25|6801|Uk

ShotYourSix wrote:

FFLink13 wrote:

ok, wats postal mean then?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_postal
and for those to lazy to click a link:


Going postal is an American English slang term, used as a verb meaning to become extremely angry, possibly to the point of violence. The term derives from a series of incidents from 1986 onward in which United States Postal Service (USPS) workers shot and killed managers, fellow workers, and members of the police or general public. Between 1986 and 1997, more than 40 people were killed in at least 20 incidents of workplace rage. Following this series of events, the idiom entered common parlance and has been applied to murders committed by employees in acts of workplace rage, irrespective of the employer; and generally to describe fits of rage in or outside the workplace.
ericcartmanisbest
Member
+24|6536|GREAT Britain
its what a forum is for, what u actually think what people say here means anything anyway?
jamiet757
Member
+138|6619
you are complaining about polls...and yet you make one? wtf?
PuckMercury
6 x 9 = 42
+298|6524|Portland, OR USA

FFLink13 wrote:

oh its american, no wonder.
hey, we're not all wankers.

and I still say it's in the wrong section
FFLink
There is.
+1,380|6688|Devon, England

puckmercury wrote:

FFLink13 wrote:

oh its american, no wonder.
hey, we're not all wankers.

and I still say it's in the wrong section
lol, i dint mean it like that, i meant it as in thats why i never heard of it (suckers).

or maybe its cos im too young and innocent.
ShotYourSix
Boldly going nowhere...
+196|6716|Las Vegas
Aw fuck it, I think I'm done here.....
PuckMercury
6 x 9 = 42
+298|6524|Portland, OR USA
it's been my experience that the young are rarely innocent. 
FFLink
There is.
+1,380|6688|Devon, England
lol, care to explain more?

i wud class myself as innocent, and i know one of my frends is quite innocent

that was sposed to be "my" frends.

Last edited by FFLink13 (2006-07-18 15:39:12)

PuckMercury
6 x 9 = 42
+298|6524|Portland, OR USA
well, I only have my child hood to go by I suppose, and that of those I knew.  Yeaaah ... I <3 boobies.

aaand, those who pissed me off usually ended up being the subject of some mind game or another.  While in Germany, I convinced an obnoxious retarded drunken "fellow" exchange student that she was on a subway in New York and we needed to get to Times Square ... hillarity ensued.

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