Short-form and long-form polls

[azurelunatic]

Title:
Short-form and long-form polls

Area:
polls

Summary:
As one can summarize a journal entry by putting part of it outside of a cut tag, so with polls. Add an attribute to polls and questions to be able to display the poll summary first, and mark certain questions as visible in summary. The summary of the poll would then be displayable in the journal with a submission button, and the poll respondent could choose to continue with the rest of the poll or not.

Description:
Polls can get long and awkward, and sometimes you're asking a ton of questions but what you really want is answers to the first two; the rest are icing.

This idea would solve both the problem of "I really want as many people as possible to answer these crucial questions of this poll" and the problem of "My poll is too long but I'd like people to see the first few questions".

This could be abused by someone showing questions that are not objectionable as summary questions, and having questions in the rest of the poll that make the unobjectionable-by-themselves questions objectionable in context.

This might be of extremely limited interest.

Better ideas to address the same general need are welcomed in comments.

Poll #2182 Short-form and long-form polls

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Should be implemented as-is.
6 (21.4%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (3.6%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
7 (25.0%)

(I have no opinion)
14 (50.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[msilverstar]

Why not two polls? I don't see any way to force people to answer everything and when visible, the answers are tracked by journal name, rather than some kind of session.

[azurelunatic]

I have, more than once, when someone has two polls, gone and filled out both without realizing there were two or more, and then lost all my answers on the polls where I did not push the button.

[pauamma]

"with changes" = any of a number of implementations would/might work, eg by linking 2 polls. (Which would also allow very neat uses, like posting identical polls(*) in 2+ places and having the answers to all stored and counted together as if there were a single poll.)

(*) Or maybe even different polls, but that may have unwanted consequences such as the one you mention about objectionable-by-association questions.

[jeeps]

hm. i think you'd get a lot of people choosing to answer the poll from the options they see in the shortened version, without bothering to click-through to the whole version.

[azurelunatic]

Just based on the differences I notice in my own commenting patterns on places like Facebook vs. places like LiveJournal and Dreamwidth, I think I would be getting only slightly fewer answers to the whole version, and an increased number of answers to the long version. (I will "like" anything that I actually like, but comment only slightly less.)

That being said, I don't think that this would be an option to use unless you were OK with the idea of a drop in answers to the long version.


All of the rates of participation drastically increase when AJAX-y stuff comes into play, so I can do something without leaving the page I'm on. I think stay-on-your-reading-page-once-you've-submitted-a-poll is going to do more for poll responses than this would.