Gfactor: you are right, but the rule is wrong

[CarnalK]

@NineToTheSky

The thread can easily be resurrected in IMHO, but that is, surely, just pedantry?

I think it would be a bit of a Catch-22. Since the poll is “about this message board” it wouldn’t be appropriate for IMHO, so if it was reposted there it’d have to be moved to ATMB for future closure.

In the poll I posted a little while ago, TubaDiva didn’t actually lock the poll but gave this response:

@TubaDiva

The only use of polls in ATMB is as a test – we don’t operate this place by popular vote and so we do not allow polling here as a general rule.

So I guess the staff see themselves in between a rock and a hard place. Polls in ATMB wouldn’t be binding but they could be embarrassing if they are overwhelmingly pointing to a wish for change that the admins don’t want. I would say that too would be mere pedantry as having the poll numbers isn’t much different than seeing the number of people who typed out a full post to express their opinion.

For example, if this were a poll, I would have voted for “Allow real polls in ATMB” but since it’s not I’ll just type out: I think we should allow real polls in ATMB.