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Automatic pm to voters when poll is reset
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Sun May 08, 2011 8:44 pmby greenoaks
Send a pm to all voters when a poll is resetConcise description:- When a poll is restarted a pm should be automatically generated and sent to every voter informing them of the reset and providing a link to the thread
Specifics/Details:How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:- it will help keep voters informed of changes to topics they have an opinion on
- possibly increase ongoing participation in polls
Re: Automatic pm to voters when poll is reset
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Sun May 08, 2011 9:25 pmby blakebowling
This would actually be fairly complicated to do, as a reset works as a poll being deleted, then re-created. A whole new set of functions would have to be written.
Re: Automatic pm to voters when poll is reset
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Sun May 08, 2011 10:37 pmby TheFissk
sounds difficult... its only a niche option...
so says the ignorant
Re: Automatic pm to voters when poll is reset
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Mon May 09, 2011 6:39 pmby wiztow
What's the point just do a new poll? People can vote on that one if they want then.
Re: Automatic pm to voters when poll is reset
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Mon May 09, 2011 7:10 pmby TheForgivenOne
wiztow wrote:What's the point just do a new poll? People can vote on that one if they want then.
Because some user's don't know if a new poll has been started. If a poll is restarted, old stat's are lost.
Re: Automatic pm to voters when poll is reset
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Mon May 09, 2011 8:45 pmby greenoaks
TheForgivenOne wrote:wiztow wrote:What's the point just do a new poll? People can vote on that one if they want then.
Because some user's don't know if a new poll has been started. If a poll is restarted, old stat's are lost.
and as sometimes a poll could have a few hundred votes, informing everyone the options have changed could really speed things up rather than have them drift back in over weeks or months.
Re: Automatic pm to voters when poll is reset
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Mon May 09, 2011 10:33 pmby trapyoung
Don't write a poor poll in the first instance. There are enough pm's sent out that clog inboxes, just update the thread's subject line if a poll is added or reset.
Re: Automatic pm to voters when poll is reset
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Mon May 09, 2011 10:46 pmby TheForgivenOne
trapyoung wrote:Don't write a poor poll in the first instance. There are enough pm's sent out that clog inboxes, just update the thread's subject line if a poll is added or reset.
It isn't a poor poll? Let me ask you, how are we supposed to update a poll in the future, when certain options have either been implemented or suggested?
And we have updated the Subject line, but guess what? There is a significant dropoff in voters after the reset. I remember one case going from 150~ voters to about 20-30. Some users only pop into Suggestions once or twice, and vote if they like the idea, then never return.
Re: Automatic pm to voters when poll is reset
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Tue May 10, 2011 3:27 amby Qwert
well sound like interesting sugestion, but from now, after few years,you will forget that you even sugest these. I think that everybody need to stop posting sugestions, so that we can give lack time to implement a large number of submited sugestions, who are full in submited forum, who are waiting from 2006-2007-2008 and etc years. When we clear situation in these forum, then we can fill with new sugestions.
Re: Automatic pm to voters when poll is reset
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Tue May 10, 2011 9:49 pmby rdsrds2120
I don't think that the work involved to get this done would be worth the result, but I do agree that it could be useful! Doesn't look like this suggestion is going to make it, good luck otherwise!
-rd
Re: Automatic pm to voters when poll is reset
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Tue May 10, 2011 10:05 pmby greenoaks
rdsrds2120 wrote:I don't think that the work involved to get this done would be worth the result, but I do agree that it could be useful! Doesn't look like this suggestion is going to make it, good luck otherwise!
-rd
it was the reset of the Which medal would you like to see next? poll that got me thinking of this.
i don't know the work involved, just thought i'd throw it out there.