I don’t see how a bar graph at the top of a thread could be considered clutter. Certainly not at the level of avatars.
Me neither. In fact, it is clarifying. Compare the bar graph to manually counting up the responses.
The way to find out whether polls cause a performance hit, or anything else undesireable, is to turn them on and see what happens. It’s not as if they couldn’t be turned off again.
Damn you practicalists! 
I have a poll that needs tallying for all the people that don’t see a problem running polls manually. I got sick when it was running and only tallied about 2/3 of the poll. I had the poll closed at that point. Please tally and give the results as an example of how little effort it is. I would very much like the results.
I am pro poll feature but because I like to do boring thankless tasks (and I’m a nice person)I will have a go for ya anyway.
I tallied 212 Responses
Q1: Yes: 40, No: 172
Q2: Yes: 50, No: 162
Q3: Yes: 51, No: 161
Q4: Yes: 68, No: 144
I’m far too new to give an opinion on whether polls should be turned on or not but I can offer some suggestions on how the poll posted by Harmonious Discord could have been quite easy to tally.
Adapt a couple Dolores Reborn’s rules for The Feud and only accept answers in the format:
- Answer
- Answer
- Answer
- Answer
where “Answer” is Yes or No.
Add a note inviting further comments to be added after the 4 answers have been given.
Then simply copy and paste all the replies into Excel, sort them A-Z and you’ll be able to see how many “1. No” and “1. Yes” answers there were and so on for questions 2, 3 and 4. For the purpose of tallying, ignore all other comments and any incorrectly formatted replies.
I don’t know if this can be applied to all polls but once the OP has an idea of how the poll is going to be tallied, s/he can give specific instructions.
Thank You:)
Just to close the loop for history, this feature has now been enabled, at least as a test to see if there’s any impact on timing, bandwidth, etc.