You can just as easily start a new thread in the Pit if you wish to ask people about it. I understand you saying you were not pitting Starving Artist, but regardless of your intent, the thread had the great potential to become and was even starting to become just another topic to pile on a poster others don’t agree with. I was heading that off at the pass.
I’m not going to move the poll there, either. While there has been instances of polls being moved to forums where they aren’t on by default (Great Debates, for example), I don’t think the BBQ Pit is the place for polls, especially concerning specific members of the board.
If you’re okay with the poll being moved there and it being a Pit thread anyway, there should have no problem making another thread there about it if you really are curious to get other opinions.