Polls forbidden in Off-Topic forum?

[Quasqueton]

Makes you wonder if a debate is going on in the mod forums at this time?

"Ban Quasqueton?"

Just kidding.

And I'm not even trying to change anything. I can live by the no polls in Off-Topic forum without complaint. Heck, I've only just discovered the Off-Topic forum recently, and I have no problem with the silliness found in there.

[I am between projects at work, and so have an unusually large amount of time to "waste" on ENWorld this week.]

Quasqueton

 

[fett527]

I'd agree to let them in as well. I understand why they got banned in the first place when off-topic stuff was allowed in General Discussion and the off-topic polls were out of hand, but now it seems pointless to not allow them. Maybe allow them on a trial basis?

 

[EricNoah]

The rule (or practice) came up at the request of users. But as has been said, this was back in the day when there was no OT forum, and OT postings were allowed (within reason) in General (if you were around back then, you might recall that we would have to occasionally say "No more OT posts for a few days" because of the clutter in General). OT Polls, for whatever reason, just drove a lot of people batty. Someone would just post "Tastes great/less filling" polls and it just spurred tons of immitators. It did get out of control.

As Dink-man says, the situation is a little different now that there's a dedicated OT forum.

Maybe there should be an OT Polls forum??

 

[Darth K'Trava]

What I'd like to figure out is if they're banned, then why are they not disabled on the OT forum?

 

[Darkness]

What I'd like to figure out is if they're banned, then why are they not disabled on the OT forum?

I blame Piratecat.

Or maybe we forgot.

 

[Umbran]

What I'd like to figure out is if they're banned, then why are they not disabled on the OT forum?

Because, in that forum, you can do an ON-topic poll, and therefore be off-topic?

 

[Dimwhit]

Isn't the point of the OT forum that you post mindless, not-related-to-D&D threads? Don't see why mindless polls are any difference.

 

[Temprus]

"I am el-remmen" thread

There is a point to that thread, hence my response in that thread (el-remmen in an old en world injoke).

 

[Jdvn1]

I always figured no OT polls were a desperate attempt to relieve clutter.

But clutter is what the OT forum is about.

I'm indifferent anyway, so.

 

[pogre]

I wish the age poll was in General.