A "poll" feature?

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answered 2010-09-10 04:24:36 -0500

omat
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updated 2010-09-10 04:27:28 -0500

How about approaching this not as integration of a single "poll" application but a problem of being able to add new applications to askbot infrastructure that would take advantage of community moderation features? Then the problem boils down to: http://askbot.org/en/question/130/modularity-and-extensibility-of-askbot

With Django it is easy to build an application, be it a blog, poll, photo gallery, etc. Instead of concentrating on the flow of one specific application, we can concentrate on separating the community feature like reputation, badges, tagging, etc. and make them work with different content applications. This way anyone that can build a basic Django application can have their own applications in their own ways.

cheers.

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Sounds reasonable. Many packages have a way of extending themselves and usually they have their own ways of doing that, we can take this path too. There is also something called "django-pluggable" but I don't know much about that, maybe there is another method? Evgeny ( 2010-09-10 10:42:38 -0500 )edit

to clarify, i think that there needs to be some sort of a plugin API for applications that show content so that the plugin looks like part of the whole Evgeny ( 2010-09-10 11:26:15 -0500 )edit

with help of signals and django contenttypes maybe applications can be unaware of the community moderation features, but still those tools can control content of those applications. lets think about this a bit. omat ( 2010-09-10 12:40:05 -0500 )edit

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answered 2010-09-09 15:26:31 -0500

Evgeny

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updated 2010-09-09 15:36:13 -0500

Well, here is one sketch, please add your suggestions.

Propose a poll (subject to some reputation requirement) --> wait till it collects enough votes --> open poll for a certain duration.

Polls can be of types: "select all that apply", "select only one of possible answers".

There may be a limit of time when the voters can change their mind.

Before the poll is open for voting, it can be edited, when the poll opens, it cannot be changed.

Poll posts can be commented.

Polls can be followed by email or via on-screen notification.

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Couple of comments (1) Maybe a poll could be "permanent", for example: Who is using platform x,y,z (People change platforms over time). And "voters" could continue to change their vote (in this situation it's not really a "vote") Mike ( 2010-09-09 16:06:25 -0500 )edit

(2) For similar reasons, maybe a poll can continue to be edited. For example it originally allows for 3 choices, but based on peoples comments, it turns out that there are more choices. I realize what I'm describing is not *really* a notrmal "poll" but I don't know what to call it. Mike ( 2010-09-09 16:08:02 -0500 )edit

Then, if the poll is perpetually editable, probably you cannot remove the choice items, but only add? Evgeny ( 2010-09-09 17:03:01 -0500 )edit

I guess that's right. I mean, unless nobody chooses one, and it turns out not to be deemed a valid choice or something. Mike ( 2010-09-09 17:51:54 -0500 )edit

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answered 2010-09-10 17:22:38 -0500

ccanonc
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My suggestion on the ask.sagemath.org site was similar to the following, but I will refine it some: Separate/Distinguish conspicuously the Q/A section from the Polls section both visually and input/output-wise. There is a lot of unused space in the lower-parts of pages (in the right or left-hand-side columns). Alternatively, the Polls could link from a second row of tabs, either at the top or bottom of the page.

Digressing, I think sometimes certain questions really beg follow-up questions. It would be nice if one could link/group questions (in a directed graph sense). Just like you have a tags input box, you could have a "Dependency of Question(s):" Box beneath that one, perhaps an html textarea input (more input lines). Currently people use a regular link for this, but it would be an interesting alternative grouping/presentation.

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@Mike: I like the Polls idea, and there are many different kind of Polls. Some are voting, anonymous feedback, user surveys, focus groups, freeform...one can imagine many many more different formats. I think Polls deserves its own section(s) and lexicon; and the columns are also fair game. ccanonc ( 2010-09-10 17:28:46 -0500 )edit

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answered 2010-09-10 13:21:31 -0500

Mike
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After reading the comments and thinking about it some more, I realize that a "poll" is not really what I'm looking for. But it is still probably a desirable feature. So as not to "mix up" what I'm suggesting with a true poll, I'm going to open a new question: User defined/selected badges.

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answered 2011-06-18 17:45:17 -0500

Tomasz P. Szynalski

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Well, you can do a poll already. Just add a question, e.g. "Which operating system do you use?", then post a few answers to your own question: "Windows", "Linux", etc. Instruct your users to upvote the appropriate answer. You can close the question when you get enough answers.

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