Should voting in a poll count as a "reply" for What's New purposes ?

[Digital Doctor]

Voting in a poll doesn't cause the poll to reappear in What's New.
Instead someone has to reply to it.

I think a "Vote" in a poll should count as a REPLY.
It certainly would help give the Polls better exposure.

Thoughts ?

 

[optrex]

Funny I asked why this DIDN'T happen just the other week. I too think it should.
Many a time a person jumps on the poll and votes, but it gets lost because no-one comments.

 

[Reeve of Shinra]

I would say no and this could take a lot of coding working for an extremely small amount of benefit.

 

[Digital Doctor]

I would say no and this could take a lot of coding working for an extremely small amount of benefit.

Too bad, I was hoping it was easy.

Polls suffer because of the lack of exposure to the What's New list.

Polls need to be entirely removed from [New Post] and need to be improved. They should be their own Content Type, unrelated to regular threads.

 

[Reeve of Shinra]

I agree with that. Make it modular too for use in other adding like a potential gallery.

 

[Digital Doctor]

I've modded the original idea that New Votes in a Poll should "BUMP" the thread back to "NEW". I think it should, but that you might only allow the bumping to occur for a certain length of time, say 1 week.

This will keep recent Polls ACTIVE ... but if the poll sucks .... it'll die before the week specified time frame.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Another tweak to this would be informing the person who just voted that a vote ALONE won't bump the thread by they can reply to the Poll/Thread which will bump the Poll to what's new. But that's probably overkill. But I bet someone might want it !

Other tweak options:
(1) More than X votes (say 3) in a period of time (say 3 days) would automatically constitute a bump.
(2) Every second or every third vote would bump the Poll.
(3) Votes would automatically trigger the post to be NEW for those that haven't VOTED yet ! (They might vote just to shut the poll up !) (PLUS, they wouldn't have to see the poll in what's new when there were no new replies (ie. just a new vote in the poll)). (You might want to have every poll have a [dismiss] option ... if you dont want to vote to shut the poll up).
(4) ie. when someone votes in a poll, a new reply is autogenerated, which outlines who voted +/- what they voted for.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Another way to encourage people to VOTE on POLLS is enable them to find them !
Looks like the Talent Chris D demonstrated a way to find the Polls.

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/search-for-all-vote-poll-threads.36451/

 

[Digital Doctor]

Idea: If you want a Vote to bump the Poll back into What's New (so it can be found by others)(to keep the poll alive)... then you could add a new post saying ... Person X voted on the poll. That would bump it up (plus it would give something new to find for the thread watchers).
It would work similar to when a new version of an addon in the Resource Manager is added (a post automatically appears in the thread).

 

[Deriel]

A simple way to do this is that any Vote makes also a post in the poll thread.. <User voted> or <Anonymos vote> (if a anonymous poll). Automatic bump =]

 

[Digital Doctor]

A simple way to do this is that any Vote makes also a post in the poll thread.. <User voted> or <Anonymos vote> (if a anonymous poll). Automatic bump =]

That what I tried to say in the post above you

 

[Deriel]

So... we agree

 

[Digital Doctor]

Another tweak would be that Voting in a poll counts as a bump for [x] days.

 

[Jeremy]

A vote isn't "new" content to the thread, per se. It is someone voting. If there was any indication that would be appropriate, it would be in Recent Activity:

Jeremy voted for No in response to "Do votes appear in recent activity?" in the thread Should voting in a poll count as a "reply" for What's New purposes ?.

 

[jauburn]

I'd like to see an option to have a vote count as recent activity and get the poll thread bumped.

 

[jauburn]

A simple way to do this is that any Vote makes also a post in the poll thread.. <User voted> or <Anonymos vote> (if a anonymous poll). Automatic bump =]

Is there an add-on or a feature that does this?

 

[Digital Doctor]

If a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear ?
If a vote is cast in a poll, does anybody hear ?

 

[optrex]

Can I vote yes for this again, almost 5 years since I last voted?

 

[jauburn]

Can I vote yes for this again, almost 5 years since I last voted?

Would be preferable as an option.