The Speculation and Rumors section have been awash with junk, repetitive polls for a while now. Most of these polls have nothing to do with speculation or rumors but rather, are “what would you like to see next?” type polls. Please make a separate category, so the Speculation and Rumors section can be fun again
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In all honesty I think polls are fine as a part of a forum environment as they are still discussions. If you feel a thread is a duplicate of another one, please don't hesitate to report it and the moderation team will review.
But I am open to a discussion
The problem is the nature of the polls means that it will always be repetitive. What will you like to see next is always a relevant question when a new cycle of patch or DLC comes out, so the same question will be repeated again and again. Everytime new content comes out, variations of the same poll will repeat and cover the front page but they will technically be a "fresh" poll. I notice that the same people are spamming slightly different variations of poll questions sometimes...maybe limit posters to one poll per week?
I can think of a couple people who will make a poll changing a few words different from a poll someone has already made.
And some of our members do some things the community has come to expect. Like speculation about the monthly patch. That's a repeat subject every month, is it not? But we all love the person who contributes his thoughts to the site so specualting about what free content or bug fix may come out every month has become part of the fabric of Speculaion. I would hate to see a thread like that also get removed for being a repetition of something in speculation done every month.
Repeats on a monthly basis also happen in every area of the TS4 forums. Such as repeating the news threads about EPs done by a particular player. Gathering all the news, quotes and tweats and information shared. If we are going to request things be deleted or given their own sections then we must look at the forum as a whole in my opinion. Most of us look forward to that sort of thread which is done every time a new EP or GP/SP is announced. We wouldn't want such a thing to end just because it was repeated.
If you want to be fair then I'm all for them looking at every section that has repeat topics...but just because something has a normal repetition doesn't mean it should be taken down or moved to it's on section.
And besides Speculation isn't much fun right now anyway with nothing to speculate about. But you can be assured once a EP or something is known, there will be repeated polls to ask if you like it or not. But I have a fondness for polls since I was the only person complaining for the lack of them when this site was opened and until they implemented them. Poll away!
Yes, that's also a better idea as well. I've especially seen 'favorite pack' polls being repeated only a month and even less than a month after the last one. Just because it's been bumped off the first page doesn't exactly mean they are no longer relevant. Only timestamps can determine that. I just have a quip about favorite pack polls honestly.
I wouldn't like similar ones to be gathered up in one thread. I change my mind from time to time, depending on new Packs and Patches and might give a different answer on a later one than an earlier one and on the way the Poll is worded or extra options listed.
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