# Gfactor: you are right, but the rule is wrong **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 9, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gfactor-you-are-right-but-the-rule-is-wrong/567010 "2011-01-09T19:44:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gfactor-you-are-right-but-the-rule-is-wrong/567010/4 "2011-01-10T14:13:11Z")
> [@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: > [@Should all complaints be private?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-all-complaints-be-private/560025/3): > > 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gfactor-you-are-right-but-the-rule-is-wrong/567010)._