"Two requests for TMP" Topic

I wish I could retrieve what I have sent in a PM. Sometimes I get a simple response of "Yes!", and I forget what I had sent. 🤷 My bad, I guess.

Can we reduce all the negative options in Polls to one simple "No"?
Maybe I should start a Poll about that. 😄

Our whole poll system has been hacked to bits, mostly by polls. A poorly designed poll question leads to results that can't be usefully interpreted, and that's what we get every time now because of all the self-imposed requirements. They're still fun, which I guess was the point, but trying to fix the polls by putting another constraint on them is probably going to make things worse.

It can be useful to have multiple negative responses, as in:

…no, because I am unable to
vs
…no, because I don't want to

But certainly many of the required negative response make things hard to understand. And *still* sometimes I don't find a response I like.

Agreed, Say the poll is "Have you ever played these rules?" I don't need to know the various reasons why someone hasn't played them. A simple NO works just fine.

Well, maybe.

I bought them and I'm going to play tomorrow
I bought them but didn't like them
I bought them but never had the opportunity
I heard about them but I didn't like what I heard
I don't play that period, but I would like rules in my era
I've never heard of them

Those are distinct, and separating those results might be very helpful depending on what you're curious about. They make things more clear.

No
None of these/No opinion
Not my cup of tea
Not my genre
This is ridiculous

Those are not distinct, and they muddy the waters rather than making things clear. You can't quite add them together as "Nos", because they are not the same, but you can't tell why people voted for one or the other.

None of These and No Opinion are two completely different things. I vote No Opinion because I don't know enough about the subject to vote otherwise but I'm interested in seeing other people's opinions.

Not My Cup of Tea and Not My Genre seem to me to be pretty much the same thing.

For some poll questions a simple No may be appropriate, but I think for most some granularity is good to have.

"Granularity"?
Oh. You're one of THOSE people, eh?
😄

I like all the negative options. I can vote negative five times.

I agree about the PMs. I try to quote the other person and hope they do the same.

As for the polls.
None of these/No opinion
Not my cup of tea
Not my genre
This is ridiculous seem redundant most could be done away with.As for those who just want to see the results they could wait until it's over.

If there's the vote for 5 I only vote for the things I like which may mean 1-3 items.

This is ridiculous…

Not my genre.

I think Polls are just meant as entertainment, to take them seriously is what 20thmaine said