Political polls on Metafilter (posted in 2000)

October 17, 2000 11:52 PM

Hurry!!! This is a time critical idea...

There has been a lot of great discussion about politics on MeFi. I think it would be cool to have a poll, listing all the candidates featured in discussions, just to see how the MeFi constituents would vote as a community.

I don't know if there are any aversions to web-based polling here at MeFi, but we won't get another chance to do this until 2004.
posted by Brilliantcrank to Feature Requests at 11:52 PM (6 comments total)

Well, elections are held every two years.

Not that anyone pays attention . . .
posted by alana at 3:53 PM on October 18, 2000

To clarify: Presidential elections.
posted by Brilliantcrank at 8:51 AM on October 19, 2000

you could set up a poll offsite, and allow people to vote, I suppose.

rcb
posted by rebeccablood at 11:36 AM on October 19, 2000

why not create a poll with greenspun or some other service, post it like anything else, and see what happens? (i suspect what will happen is the mefi community will loudly debate whether they want to see posts like this in the future) I'd surely participate.
posted by sudama at 10:13 PM on October 21, 2000

err, in the poll that is... ...the debate too, i guess. nevermind.
posted by sudama at 10:14 PM on October 21, 2000

Let's do one Nov 7. Who sez?
posted by EngineBeak at 7:24 PM on November 4, 2000