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Public area => The Pub => Features => Topic started by: Arantor on May 30th, 2013, 02:19 AM
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So I got to thinking today about polls, since I made one, don't do that often enough haahaha.
OK, so here's what I have in mind about improving them. Not saying that all of these *are* going in but this is what's on my mind for them.
* Allowing admin to set the maximum number of poll answers (currently no limit)
* Fixing the bug where way too many answers can cause issues
* Option to display the choices randomly to people viewing the poll (because people have a tendency to pick the first one), though the order would remain consistent for viewing results
* Multiple questions per poll
* Voting with points rather than individual votes (e.g. having 5 points to distribute between 3 answers)
* Pie charts as an optional display type (may or may not use the chart code I had before, dunno)
Thoughts?
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Yes.
* Allowing admin to set the maximum number of poll answers (currently no limit)
* Fixing the bug where way too many answers can cause issues
* Option to display the choices randomly to people viewing the poll (because people have a tendency to pick the first one), though the order would remain consistent for viewing results
* Multiple questions per poll
Thinking about Beer, what is your rating of the following brews on a scale from 1 to 10?
1. Guinness
2. Dos Equis
3. Killian's Irish Red
4. Coors
Now thinking about the cost, what is the maximum you would pay for a six pack?
1. $5
2. $6
3. $7
4. >$8
You know there was (is ?) a survey app that you used to be able to install in Cpanel. I used it for a while years ago for surveys that we put together. But in addition to polls what about surveys from within the forum? :hmm:* Voting with points rather than individual votes (e.g. having 5 points to distribute between 3 answers)
* Pie charts as an optional display type (may or may not use the chart code I had before, dunno)
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But in addition to polls what about surveys from within the forum? :hmm:
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LimeSurvey - I went back and checked.
But in addition to polls what about surveys from within the forum? :hmm:
Well... if you can have multiple polls per topic, where people can vote for multiple answers or score things, and the admin can see who voted what... don't you already have that ;)
As you said it would be useful though, at any rate. :)
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Pulling a proper set of results from a survey is definitely plugin scope, but if the core has the information already, it's no big deal to do anything else after that.
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* Multiple questions per poll
* Voting with points rather than individual votes (e.g. having 5 points to distribute between 3 answers)
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Yes, multiple polls per post. Other systems offer this.
As far as using points, I think it's a bit of a niche thing, however when you think about it, the only real difference between it and normal voting is essentially just one of interface.
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Thinking about it more, even I don't understand it! Each month I run a points-poll and I have it written down what numbers go where to set it correctly.