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What are some creative ways to encourage poll creation?(self)
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I think polls are a good thing. They are actually one of the most sharable formats off-site. This site has an advantage in that its polls differ from most sites'. Most sites typically use the most basic poll possible. These typically only let you pick one option. And downvoting isn't an option. So this site is uniquely good for ranking things.

When sharing something on a Reddit clone, a few may ask, "Why didn't you just post it here?" With the polls, there is the excuse, "I can do something on that site that I can't do here." So if someone makes a poll, there is a good chance that I'll end up sharing it on other sites.

So basically, we can't have too many polls. Also, they are good in general and make the site more interesting.

Obviously, I can make a post encouraging them. But it would also be good to have a UI/UX solution to encourage it, because a post only encourages something for a week or so. Polls are very easy to make, but they aren't that obvious because most people aren't in the habit of using Matrix Commands. I did add a link to a formatting guide near the comment box. But very few people are going to read that.

And rather than think about this too deeply, I think it would be fun to open up the floor to a community brainstorming session. How do we make a design that encourages more people to make polls? Let's say our top metric was unique poll-creating users a month. How would we make that number as large as possible?

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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

Get PollMatrix.com and PollMatrix.net if you can.

New feature idea: Present new features in a consistent standout colour (don't switch around), like bright orange or bright green (red, purple, blue are hyperlinks), and the "new feature" would auto-expire after a few weeks to "normal" colours.

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[-]x0x71(+1|0)

Well, I added some new futures. But I wasn't happy with my CSS trying to highlight it so I'm defering making those highlights for another day. Maybe.

Maybe someone good at CSS can make a theme to show me their version.

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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

I thought you were going to implement the SubMatrix theme?

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[-]x0x71(+1|0)

I like this. I think I'm going to go with green.

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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

New fancy twist: It could fade to "normal" over time.

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[-]x0x70(0|0)

That sounds like a good Metalica album about them selling out.

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[-]newJiminy1(+1|0)

I tried making a poll as a test looks like it didn't post.

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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

IIRC, I found that too.

It wasn't clear that you need to copypaste the poll-code into a text post.

Perhaps that could be automated into a next step, the text post page, with the poll-code and commented-out "Do not remove these lines as this is the poll you created."

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[-]beenPoisoned1(+2|-1)

You could get some users. In that vein, you could implement some non autistic features to improve the quality of life around here.

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[-]x0x72(+2|0)

Catch 22. The polls are exactly one of the ways to do that. You've never had to market a site. You've only thrown away sites that already have users.

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[-]JasonCarswell1(+1|0)

Marketing = branding + campaign development + media + PR.

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[-]beenPoisoned1(+2|-1)

If you'll notice, I didnt shit talk your polls feature or do performative racism. The polls are sick. Aside from the lax security around voting ;)

Im like 1/10th of your userbase, and I gave you useful feedback.

Edit: marketing cool features while lacking basic features is not quite the business. 4 hours of effort on my 'social' features, and you are a real reddit alternative. you are missing critical dopamine hits.

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[-]x0x72(+2|0)

Ok. Now you have useful feedback. And the thread is exactly what people's ideas are to do specifically that with regard to polls. There's a lot of ways to measure userbase. Using one metric you are 1/372th of the userbase, thanks to polls (unique people in 30 days who have contributed an input that has shaped the site).

Polls get a large number of new people to do their first interaction on the site. Maybe a few of them become voters. Maybe a few of those become commentors. And more people making more polls means more sharable content. In the concentric shells of less core user to more core users, being poll responders, voters, commentors, posters; poll creators is maybe the true inner shell. Because they help feed the base.

If you have ideas for how to make polls easier to make and higher dopamine I'll take whatever suggestions you've got.

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[-]beenPoisoned0(+1|-1)

too bad none of that addresses your title, 'poll creation'

fr fr i need a user feed to see the doots i got on posts and comments

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[-]goat3(+3|0)

? https://goatmatrix.net/usercomments/beenPoisoned ¿

Or a cumulative number?

But OK, more users are needed. We can recruit them from, /r/trans, or /r/trump/ or communities.win or twinks.com or wherever. They're all the same, seems to me.

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[-]beenPoisoned1(+2|-1)

exactly, turn this hidden url into a goddamn link i can always find

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[-]x0x72(+2|0)

It's in the sidebar on your user page. It's two clicks away. Your name, then that.

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