Please give us a place to poll

If we had a place to do polls on the forums it could give the staff new insights while also letting the players engage in a meaningful way. This could also help gauge expectations for certain things for example I am wonder how many people plan on playing each class and seeing which is most popular and ehich is least popular. Even though there is still much to be revealed about each class these kinds of things could be interesting to see where people are at right now and then do another poll later and see if there has been a change in peoples opinion. Thats just one example.

Anyway, thank you for letting me participate in the forums I appreciate the dev team here even if they like cosmetic pets.

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Mag7spy

That is a double edged sword, people should just discuss with a open mind or give feedback.

B_B_Z

We can already do that. I don't see how polling is not being open minded? Maybe thats not what youre saying though.

Also if you ask people which class they will play you get 500 comments and no one wants to read all that. A poll would give you the straight numbers with out having to read 500 messages and explanations.

JamesSunderland

IIRC there was 2 polls regarding what class people wanted to play last year, not through a forum fuction but through strawpoll:

https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/47893/poll-wich-class-classes-do-you-want-to-play
https://strawpoll.com/3a5a9ug5w

https://forums.ashesofcreation.com/discussion/48927/what-class-would-you-play-if-the-game-released-tomarrow-large-poll
http://www.strawpoll.me/42943008

if you're interested in making a poll i would probably recommend strawpoll.

daveywavey

A poll's usefulness is too often dependent on the poll's creator. Biased/Leading/Unhelpful/Insufficient questions skew any answers, which in turn leads to the poll becoming irrelevant. Conversation threads like we have are generally a better way to have everyone's thoughts expressed.

CROW3

For instance: “What’s your favorite dessert?”

( ) Pie
( ) I hate dessert

daveywavey

CROW3 wrote: »

For instance: “What’s your favorite dessert?”

( ) Pie
( ) I hate dessert

Well, I mean, that one seems fair...

JustVine

daveywavey wrote: »

A poll's usefulness is too often dependent on the poll's creator. Biased/Leading/Unhelpful/Insufficient questions skew any answers, which in turn leads to the poll becoming irrelevant. Conversation threads like we have are generally a better way to have everyone's thoughts expressed.

This is very true but there are definitely some guidelines one can follow to reduce that, and obviously there are some people who have the skill set due to happenstance/work.

We know IS has something for polling, although I am not sure if they have one that let's you vote anonymously (which is really a must.) I don't actually know what stopped them from making that a tool on the site. That demo was awhile ago now.

Noaani

B_B_Z wrote: »

Also if you ask people which class they will play you get 500 comments and no one wants to read all that. A poll would give you the straight numbers with out having to read 500 messages and explanations.

This is why polls are not really a good thing in most peoples hands.

We have no real information at all on any subclass. As such, a poll about which class people are playing right now would only be a poll about which name of a class in Ashes they think will be the closest to the class they want to play.

As such, the comments in relation to this question will have some worthwhile information, but the poll itself will not.

PenguinPaladin

Noaani wrote: »

B_B_Z wrote: »

Also if you ask people which class they will play you get 500 comments and no one wants to read all that. A poll would give you the straight numbers with out having to read 500 messages and explanations.

This is why polls are not really a good thing in most peoples hands.

We have no real information at all on any subclass. As such, a poll about which class people are playing right now would only be a poll about which name of a class in Ashes they think will be the closest to the class they want to play.

As such, the comments in relation to this question will have some worthwhile information, but the poll itself will not.

Also all the meta chasers out there just wont comment as they dont know what class they will be. You'll just get more fanciful players and such, romanticising what flavors they like.

B_B_Z

Some of you are focusing on the "for instance" I gave which isnt really the center of the subject. Polls can be about anything from whether you like cosmetic pets to will you be a casual or hard core player to virtually anything you want to ask.

As far as the poll being biased towards the pollsters views, if you want honest feed back you'll include all possible answers otherwise people can just ignore it and the engagement of the poll will be low.

Any I thought this duscussion was dead lol.

Elder

Maybe we should make a poll on if we need a place to poll.

Noaani

B_B_Z wrote: »

Some of you are focusing on the "for instance" I gave which isnt really the center of the subject. Polls can be about anything from whether you like cosmetic pets to will you be a casual or hard core player to virtually anything you want to ask.

As far as the poll being biased towards the pollsters views, if you want honest feed back you'll include all possible answers otherwise people can just ignore it and the engagement of the poll will be low.

Any I thought this duscussion was dead lol.

Well, you gave an example of why we may want polls - I simply pointed out why the example you gave is not a reason to have them.

Not only is the general public not overly proficient at creating a poll, they are also not overly good at understanding that polls aren't all that relevant.

If Intrepid enabled us to start polls on these forums, a lot of people would hold a poll on a topic and expect Intrepid to be bound by the results - and be actually angry if they didnt.

TheDarkSorcerer

@Vaknar Recently did a poll here on the forums. I believe us little people can't use that function yet when creating new posts. But it's def something THEY CAN add since this forum platform is hosted by 'Vanilla Forums'.

B_B_Z

Imagine if they could have a poll and a discussion on the same thread.

PenguinPaladin

B_B_Z wrote: »

Imagine if they could have a poll and a discussion on the same thread.

Imagine doing a strawpoll and linking it in your first post when you make a thread?

Mag7spy

https://strawpoll.com/polls/Q0Zp4oLWDZM

JustVine

PenguinPaladin wrote: »

B_B_Z wrote: »

Imagine if they could have a poll and a discussion on the same thread.

Imagine doing a strawpoll and linking it in your first post when you make a thread?

Links leading to a third party website are bad for click through rate and survey engagement. Granted I couldn't care less if we had the feature or not, but it isn't like it is a huge ask.

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