Why no more polls on nVnews?

[styles-T]

What ever happened to the Monthly Polls that used to be on the Main news page?

Was wondering if they are gone for good?

Surveys/Polls can be pretty interesting at times depending the question at hand.. =)

[Matthyahuw]

I think that was Dave's job...Mike maybe needs to reset it back up first, along with the fav pics feature, I was going to take over the Favorite Pics, but the hacker took care of that too...

[volt]

You could still take care of it, once it's setup. It was always fun to watch those once in for while.

[styles-T]

Originally posted by d1rX
You could still take care of it, once it's setup. It was always fun to watch those once in for while.

I 2nd that..:cool:

[DaveW]

After doing it for three years, I was slacking off updating it. I was also running out of ideas for the poll. VBB has a nice poll option anyway.

[|JuiceZ|]

tru, but the fav pic one was koo though....

[Bethsaida]

It was interesting to see people's opinion about different stuff(be it the latest nvidia gpu or whatever).
Most of the polls were about stuf that i was really interested in and would like to see what other think.
I enjoyed the nVnews polls a lot .
Guys post your comments here,if we generate enough traffic
maybe nVnews will reconsider the matter.


Hope we get the polls back:):) :)

[netviper13]

I'll save the mods some trouble:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=315


But I do agree that we need to bring back the polls.

[Bethsaida]

I actually used to believe that polls on thech www's are useful to the companies which products are being polled on(if).
Deffinitely the PR/marketing dept people should be checking them regularly.
So besides being curious about what other people think i believe they have a practical use too.

[DaveW]

I have been thinking about bring back the poll. Here is why its not there now:

The poll script I was using sucked, the source code had to be manually edited to change the poll, and the results manually posted and stored. I had to type a dummy data file for the number of poll options in notepad every time I changed the poll. To be honest, after 3 years, changing the poll was becoming a major pain the butt.

I was looking for a better poll script but really didn't find something that suited our needs so I am writing my own. One thing the next poll will do is have extra code to keep the results more realistic e.g.

* each vote will generate a key (based in part on IP address) to prevent multiple voting.

* no more than x amount of votes (maybe 100) from each referring IP. This prevents other sites linking to our poll and telling all their visitors to vote a single way, which screws up the results.

[volt]

If you want Dave, I have few polls. I think they are in cgi form as well as PHP :)