# What's your opinion on time limits for Dope polls?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-time-limits-for-dope-polls/658076>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 11, 2013, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-time-limits-for-dope-polls/658076 "2013-05-11T13:52:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-time-limits-for-dope-polls/658076/1 "2013-05-11T13:52:41Z")

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Many Dope polls have voting open for extremely short periods. How better to explain why, than with another poll?

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**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-time-limits-for-dope-polls/658076/2 "2013-05-11T14:03:02Z")

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I usually do mine for 1 year, if you want to know.

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**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-time-limits-for-dope-polls/658076/3 "2013-05-11T14:14:11Z")

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a poll asking for data at that time; what is your age or who would you vote for next week should have a short period to keep the data meaningful.

have you ever eaten Chinese food could stay open longer.