On 15/11/10 20:08, Curtis Hovey wrote: > I believe team polls have failed and are dying. > > Team Polls > Year Number > --------------- > 2006 | 18 > 2007 | 109 > 2008 | 161 > 2009 | 116 > 2010 | 70 > > I believe these numbers are exaggerating the number of polls actually > used. There was many bug reports about poll types. Polls were created > but never used. We fixed some of the issues in 2008, and in 2009 we made > them more prominent in the UI. I believe the decline in the number > relates the to fact that teams know that the Lp only support simple > polls and that is not what they want. > > We have choices: > 1. Remove the feature because we believe it is not valuable, or > will never be a convenient or as good are other poll services > like Survey Monkey. (about 1 week of work) > 2. Fix the UI for registering a poll and voting because we believe > simple polls are valuable to teams (a few weeks of work) > 3. Fix the UI for registering a poll and voting and add support for > secrecy and condorcet voting because we believe that this is a > compelling feature (a month or more of work)
I just went to create a test poll to play with the feature. My thoughts: 1) The use of a plain text box instead of a date picker for choosing the start and end times is really quite horrid. 2) "A poll cannot open less than 12 hours after it's created." Huh? Why? This is a silly restriction, liable to send potential users away. Max.
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