Add polls for forum topics

red_king_cyclops

I have seen polls in other websites. Polls are online voting devices in forum threads.

Polls should be added to Scratch as tools in forum topics. There could be multiple polls or no polls in one topic. There would be two kinds of polls: single choice and multiple choice. In single choice, a user could only vote for one thing in the poll, while in multiple choice, a user could vote once for each of the things in the poll.

Polls would be useful because they could record data/votes from users without having the forum topic creator to do the long process of finding opinions from other people's replies.

Sorry if this suggestion isn't detailed enough.

LionHeart70

Semi-support, it'd be cool but probably wouldn't be that important.

Sheep_maker

As long as this feature isn't available in the suggestions forum because we don't want to encourage people to state their opinion without saying why.

DownsGameClub

Sheep_maker wrote:
As long as this feature isn't available in the suggestions forum because we don't want to encourage people to state their opinion without saying why.

This is why I am hesitant to want this suggestion.
Not only that, but the Scratch Team never adds suggestions based on the amount of support. Instead, they follow a basic protocol that helps decide whether it is needed and will help Scratch grow in its capabilities.

On the other hand, this would be very interesting to see statistics of what other people think, especially on the other outside of Scratch forums.

Last edited by DownsGameClub (June 30, 2017 21:52:02)

muellly

I support this. In my show and tell thread I have a poll asking what genre people think the game is and a link to it in the first post, it has been up for 4 months and no one has made a post to vote yet. This would encourage people to vote if someone makes a poll because it is faster than making a post and it is more visible to people viewing that thread.

TheUltimatum

This can be done already.

Just write a php script to count votes or whatever and provide the links to both counters.

Gabriel2900

Duplicate

red_king_cyclops

Gabriel2900 wrote:
Duplicate

Sorry, I didn't know this thread was a duplicate, especially because there isn't a proper search function for the forums.

Sheep_maker

red_king_cyclops wrote:
there isn't a proper search function for the forums.

You can use your favourite search engine and search the Scratch forums using this format:

site:scratch.mit.edu/discuss [query]

On most search engines the “site:” restricts the search results to the specified website.

Gabriel2900

Sheep_maker wrote:
red_king_cyclops wrote:
there isn't a proper search function for the forums.
You can use your favourite search engine and search the Scratch forums using this format:
site:scratch.mit.edu/discuss [query]
On most search engines the “site:” restricts the search results to the specified website.

Only Google can do this.

Edit: other search engines can do this as well.

Last edited by Gabriel2900 (July 2, 2017 01:33:59)

Sheep_maker

Gabriel2900 wrote:
Sheep_maker wrote:
On most search engines the “site:” restricts the search results to the specified website.
Only Google can do this.

Duckduckgo
Bing
Yahoo
but not Baidu
Yandex
What do you mean only Google has that ability?

Gabriel2900

Sheep_maker wrote:
What do you mean only Google has that ability?

Google (and others) have this ability

walkcycle

Gabriel2900 wrote:
Google (and others) have this ability

Yes

walkcycle

No support because the forums are a place where we can express our reasoning and seek to discover options better than a poll provides.

Galleigo

suppoorrrrtttt

Charles12310

Strong Support. It's the best way to find out how many people like or hate a suggestion.

Gabriel2900

Sheep_maker wrote:
Duckduckgo
Bing
Yahoo
but not Baidu
Yandex

None of these works, so only Google has the power

Last edited by Gabriel2900 (July 11, 2017 02:28:33)

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