# Test: How many Poll options are possible?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [September 12, 2011, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102 "2011-09-12T22:18:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2011, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102/1 "2011-09-12T22:18:17Z")
200?
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### Author:  [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2011, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102/2 "2011-09-12T22:22:11Z")
Results: empty poll options are eliminated.
Follow up question: How muych time do you have to fill in all the poll options? Is there a time-out?
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### Author:  [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102/3 "2011-09-12T22:49:55Z")
And … pulls into the lead! As is to be expected.
-D…a
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102/4 "2011-09-12T22:51:27Z")
I voted “…” because I don’t really know, so it seemed like the honest choice.
Dude! Why did you make it public? I mean, I’m OK with revealing this, but not everybody will be! :mad:
😛
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2011, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102/5 "2011-09-12T23:17:13Z")
I voted for six. It was my first instinct and I thought I should go with it.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102/6 "2011-09-12T23:36:11Z")
Anything more than 9 is gluttonous.
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### Author:  [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2011, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102/7 "2011-09-13T00:22:47Z")
This makes me think…do we get to vote on other aspects of the board?
How long do we wait between searches? How many sizes should we allow? How many IP bans should happen per day?
I guess the trick is getting the results to be implemented…
-D/a
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### Author:  [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102/8 "2011-09-13T02:11:09Z")
You forgot to include 11 as an option. Also, your poll has a well established liberal bias.
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### Author:  [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2011, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102/9 "2011-09-13T02:19:02Z")
Obviously the correct response is ‘200?’, because the answer to the question \*might \*be 200…amiright?
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102/10 "2011-09-13T02:48:19Z")
You stopped trying at 12 options? Why didn’t you just plug in “9999” when it asked you for number of options to see what happened (spoiler: it allows you to make a poll with 9999 options)?
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2011, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102/11 "2011-09-13T10:10:29Z")
> [@Munch](#):
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> You stopped trying at 12 options? Why didn’t you just plug in “9999” when it asked you for number of options to see what happened (spoiler: it allows you to make a poll with 9999 options)?
See post number 2. That would require typing in 9999 options.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2011, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102/12 "2011-09-13T11:07:47Z")
I voted for all the options, since of course all of them are “possible”. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2011, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102/13 "2011-09-13T17:43:58Z")
OpalCat’s [latest poll](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=621692) had 59 options, so the maximum has to be at least that.
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### Author:  [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2011, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102/14 "2011-09-13T18:15:01Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:13, topic:596102”]
OpalCat’s latest poll had 59 options…
[/QUOTE]
Where’s **Mewl Dear** when you need her? 😃
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### Author:  [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102/15 "2011-09-13T19:49:59Z")
> [@Toucanna](#):
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> Where’s **Mewl Dear** when you need her? 😃
I’m sorry, **Toucanna** , but I’m having trouble wrapping my head around the concept of “needing” **Mewl Dear** (who, incidentally, appears to be a [him](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14162213&postcount=19), not a her).
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### Author:  [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102/16 "2011-09-13T19:59:07Z")
_ **There can be only one!** _
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### Author:  [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102/17 "2011-09-13T23:31:14Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:13, topic:596102”]
OpalCat’s [latest poll](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=621692) had 59 options, so the maximum has to be at least that.
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Manually adding **Gary** ’s sig:
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:13, topic:596102”]
Everything in moderation!
[/QUOTE]
Nice sig/message combination. 🙂
-D/a
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### Author:  [@Toucanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toucanna)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-how-many-poll-options-are-possible/596102/18 "2011-09-14T01:17:51Z")
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:15, topic:596102”]
… **Mewl Dear** (who, incidentally, appears to be a him, not a her).
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Ya know, I thought **MD** was a he, but a Doper who’s been around longer than I have referred to him as her in another thread and I thought, “I’m a n00b here. What the #$^% do I know?” Lead astray by my elders and supposedly betters. grumble, grumble sulk… my lovely joke all ruined. wah!