That was a reasonable choice, given how you feel. Does the strong slant in this poll (about 50% choosing among the top three choices) change how you will set up your future polls? I could see you going either way, depending on what kind of people you want to (or don’t want to) encourage to respond.
For the things that are entirely hypothetical (“If you realized that Skald was actually a super-villain intent on destroying Cardiff, would you shoot him, stab him, or join his ranks?”) I’ll stick with public responses. I may do more private responses for opinion matters.
I might decline in that sort of circumstance myself, but I’d be just as likely to skip such a poll regardless of the public/private setting. I realize I don’t have the same sense of a need for privacy that a lot of members here do, but whatever works for different people.