# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 29, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157 "2026-01-29T18:21:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 81
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1601 "2026-05-05T13:29:59Z")
I’m pretty sure everyone who ever votes in the poll thread has visited mpsims multiple times in the last year, so i assume those votes are reading errors, with maybe a couple of people just screwing around for the sake of screwing around. Confession: i read it wrong at first, looked at the results, and thought, "the barn house? There are posters who go there? Then i read more carefully and corrected my vote. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1602 "2026-05-05T13:30:34Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I have no idea what’s going on with the voting. I wondered if I had phrased it “have you visited these forums at least once in the last year” if it would have gone differently. It would have gone differently at least in that I would have voted in it. I have no idea whether there’s a forum I’ve only visited once. I think I’ve been in all the active forums a good bit more than that, but I often don’t notice what forum I’m in unless I’m about to post something not acceptable in all. > [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Yes, and half those who voted failed. I couldn’t vote in that second one either, because there was no option for “not voting in that one at least until this is clarified.” ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1603 "2026-05-05T13:32:26Z")
What’s unclear? If you have zero idea where you’ve posted, you don’t know, but i think that makes you an outlier. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1604 "2026-05-05T13:35:50Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > “not voting in that one at least until this is clarified.” I thought it was clear as day. “Which forums do you never (or almost never) visit?.” ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1605 "2026-05-05T13:36:38Z")
It isn’t posted, it’s read; at least as I read it. And what I wanted clarified was whether the first of those polls really meant to ask which threads you’d been in either exactly once or never. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1606 "2026-05-05T13:55:15Z")
It asked about categories (forums), not threads. It’s really just asking, “which categories do you not visit?” ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1607 "2026-05-05T14:13:23Z")
@Elmer_J.Fudd – clever. If someone answers “yes” to your poll, in doing so they are forced to change their answer to the first poll (or, just leave it, because it _was_ true at the time). A bit like this “this sentence isn’t true” paradox. (There are no “yes” respondents, yet. Logically, some of the responders to the _first_ poll are either joking, or confused. The first poll has had over twice as many respondents, so it’s hard to know for sure what’s going on. Okay – enough – I’d better get to work!) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1608 "2026-05-05T14:34:28Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > [The U.S.: 50 States Outlines - Map Quiz Game - Seterra](https://www.geoguessr.com/vgp/3263) I tried to take the quiz. The second question was Kentucky. I put in Kentucky. It said I was wrong. It started giving me hints like K\*\*\*\*\*\*y. I made sure I spelled it right. I did. It never registered as a right answer. I stopped the quiz at this point. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1609 "2026-05-05T15:54:17Z")
Huh when i played, it gave me a name and asked me to click on the right state. I did better than i expected, i got about 30 right. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1610 "2026-05-05T18:18:08Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I did better than i expected, i got about 30 right. I think I remember you saying on here once that you have poor face memory; does that also apply to shapes like states? ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1611 "2026-05-05T19:01:32Z")
Not especially. I’m just not very on top of what shapes states are. There are a lot of near-rectangles, plus a lot of blobby states along the Mississippi that I’m not that familiar with. I’m a little embarrassed to have missed one of the New England states, though. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1612 "2026-05-05T19:03:12Z")
I got 94% (three wrong) on the state quiz, though I didn’t think to look at how long it took. I know I whiffed on one of the Wyoming/Colorado pair, and on Rhode Island (it was one of the early questions, and I just couldn’t remember its shape), and another one I can’t think of offhand (maybe a Dakota). ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1613 "2026-05-05T19:32:43Z")
Most of those forums I’m sure I’ve at least read in. A couple of them I’m not sure whether I’ve read within the last year, though I have read something in them sometime. The only one I’m sure I haven’t read anything in is the Barn Room. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1614 "2026-05-05T19:48:25Z")
Rhode Island didn’t look quite right, it look like it was missing Aquidneck Island, where Newport is, it took me a while to find it. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1615 "2026-05-05T20:56:28Z")
Yeah, i i didn’t think it had the right outline of RI. The others looked okay, though. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2026, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1616 "2026-05-05T22:03:22Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Huh when i played, it gave me a name and asked me to click on the right state. > > I did better than i expected, i got about 30 right. I believe there were multiple options. You could pick the pointer or pick the text. I picked text because that seemed like a fairer test of knowledge. I may go back and try the other way. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1617 "2026-05-06T13:01:34Z")
If anything, being cut off from the internet would improve my mental health. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1618 "2026-05-06T13:03:33Z")
I thought about the internet one. Certainly after I retire that would move up the list. I picked co-signing for a stranger that seems nice. Worst case I’m out a couple hundred thousand dollars. (and I may recoup that when the bank forecloses on the property), Most items on the list are out of the question. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1619 "2026-05-06T13:25:44Z")
My stepdad worked at a sewage treatment plant. No one had direct contact with sewage. The dirtiest job was probably sweeping the floors of the break room. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2026, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-3/1027157/1620 "2026-05-06T13:36:38Z")
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