Disappearing poll from the pre-Discourse era

OK! so here’s the old URL format:

https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=<id>

The best we can do at the moment is to generate a list of all topics with the word “Poll” in the topic title. That doesn’t necessarily mean there was a poll in the topic though. Here’s one that seems to have been a vBulletin poll: topic id 442232?

https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=442232

… which redirects to …

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-poll-for-gay-dopers-how-comfortable-accepting-is-your-family/424659

Looking at that URL in the wayback machine

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Yay, there is one 2018 crawl! Woohoo! This is why I (and you, if you can afford it) should have a monthly donation set up to the Internet Archive. :raised_hands:

But unfortunately I don’t see a poll anywhere in that archived page? :cry:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180717041524/https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=442232

If others would like to assist, here’s a Google Sheet with a list of all Straight Dope vBulletin thread ids that have the word “Poll” in the title. I ordered them by id so you can get a rough idea of time by the id; earlier topics have smaller id numbers.

edit: we’re revising the sheet to better match just the word “poll”, so it’ll be less than ~3,500.