# What is the likelihood of ever getting polls? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 30, 2002, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-likelihood-of-ever-getting-polls/121460 "2002-07-30T00:42:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-likelihood-of-ever-getting-polls/121460/1 "2002-07-30T00:42:39Z")
I’ve been dying to get everyone’s opinion on who they think is hotter: Justin Timberlake or Ricky Martin. 😛 But seriously, might we ever? ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-likelihood-of-ever-getting-polls/121460/2 "2002-07-30T01:32:54Z")
Sure, just as soon as our new genetically modifed hamster, the one with Lance Armstrong genes, gets here. ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-likelihood-of-ever-getting-polls/121460/3 "2002-07-30T02:37:47Z")
Slightly better than you being able to successfully play pick-up-sticks with your buttcheeks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-likelihood-of-ever-getting-polls/121460/4 "2002-07-30T11:26:53Z")
Since I have prehensile buttcheeks, can we assume that we’ll have polling turned on by the end of the day? GD&R Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-likelihood-of-ever-getting-polls/121460/5 "2002-07-30T11:29:41Z")
Isn’t that the **whole point** of IMHO? You know, where people can post their opinions on questions just like that? Sorry, that was facetious. I’ve found with polls, though, that people often want to explain why they voted a particular way, or who else should be in the poll. If you let people post extras, you might as well keep the whole polling option as a plain message board. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-likelihood-of-ever-getting-polls/121460/6 "2002-07-30T11:37:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose \* > \*\*Sure, just as soon as our new genetically modifed hamster, the one with Lance Armstrong genes, gets here. \*\* Have you seen **Hamtaro**? You turn your back for one second and out the window they go! We should probably upgrade to guinea pigs. They’re used to the harder work. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-likelihood-of-ever-getting-polls/121460/7 "2002-07-30T12:38:28Z")
Well, the staff already has the option. This is not official, but I don’t think that we’ll turn the option on for members until/unless we go to pay to post. We are too popular as it is. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-likelihood-of-ever-getting-polls/121460/8 "2002-07-30T12:51:26Z")
Does that mean that moderators and administrators could create a poll for the rest of us to vote on? I really like that idea - you wouldn’t have every Tom, Dick, and Mary making one up, but you’d still get some pretty thoughtful polls. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-likelihood-of-ever-getting-polls/121460/9 "2002-07-30T17:53:29Z")
dantheman - yes we can and we have in the past (the infamous smiley poll.) ---
**Author:** ![femtosecond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@femtosecond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femtosecond)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-likelihood-of-ever-getting-polls/121460/10 "2002-08-01T15:38:15Z")
> [@](#): > > **the infamous smiley poll** When is the next one? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-likelihood-of-ever-getting-polls/121460/11 "2002-08-01T18:27:30Z")
> [@](#): > > When is the next one? Probably around the same time that the staff next decides they want a tally of the opinions of members on some subject. ---
**Author:** ![femtosecond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@femtosecond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femtosecond)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2002, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-likelihood-of-ever-getting-polls/121460/12 "2002-08-01T21:19:25Z")
I meant to ask about the next smiley voting in particular. Is it scheduled yet? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2002, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-likelihood-of-ever-getting-polls/121460/13 "2002-08-02T07:33:25Z")
No, it’s not scheduled yet. But it might happen, someday.