D&D 5E Poll: How many people think polls with only one option are manipulative

[FormerlyHemlock]

Is there a point in a poll which doesn't allow you to disagree? Yes or no opinion?

 

[MonsterEnvy]

What was the point of this thread. It does not have anything to do with D&D.

 

[FormerlyHemlock]

What was the point of this thread. It does not have anything to do with D&D.

No, but it has something to do with Enworld's 5E forum. This poll is intended as ironic humor.

C.f. http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?467928-How-many-fans-want-a-5E-Warlord

See e.g. post #25.

 

[77IM]

I feel very strongly about my lack of an opinion on this matter. It's my preference, and my gaming group's, to not really care too much about poll options. I resent other people suggesting that I should care about polls, and suggesting that if I don't have an opinion on polls that I'm not really playing D&D or that it is some how "badwrongforumparticipation." We each have our own forum-going styles and mine is to kind of glance at the pool options, go with my gut and just pick one, then look at the results with mild interest. I think that's an entirely valid way of interacting with polls and it has worked well for my group since we started playing 2e back in 1991. Back then forums were actual cork bulletin boards and if you wanted to troll you had to break into the FLGS at night and post some scandalous ASCII art printed on your school's dot-matrix printer. Every once in a while the store owner would take down the bulletin board for a day and replace it with an index card that said "Nginx 502 Gateway Error." Anyway back then the polls were blatantly manipulative because they were conducted in person and the pollster would lobby for one result or another. Actually they were less like polls and more like impromptu bitch-fests where we'd complain about Vampire: The Masquerade not being a real role-playing game and about whether or not Blue was the most overpowered color in M:tG (answer: yes it was). So I forget what I was talking about but I definitely have no opinion.

 

[Crothian]

This poll is intended as ironic humor.

It failed

 

[mach1.9pants]

Yeah delete this please, it's just spam. There is enough of that already, with some 3 post recent joiner crying out for admin attention.

 

[El Mahdi]

Is there a point in a poll which doesn't allow you to disagree? Yes or no opinion?

Yes - when they're being used to take a head-count rather than determine competing opinions.

I think if one feels manipulated by them, it says more about the person than the poll.

 

[FormerlyHemlock]

Yes - when they're being used to take a head-count rather than determine competing opinions.

A distinction without a difference.

 

[Umbran]

Claiming it as "ironic humor" is not an effective defense against being "snarky mocking", which isn't constructive.

While folks are allowed to have an opinion, it really ought to be expressed in a constructive way.

Thread closed.