How to make the poll feature on social platforms not suck (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by neon_cat@kbin.social to c/AskKbin@kbin.social

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I just had an idea and would like to hear your opinions: I always have to roll my eyes when I see how useless the poll feature on social platforms is. It's just a gimmick. But what if we make it better?

What if there was a kbin magazine where everybody can ask questions and every month the five most upvoted ones are shown as a pop up to some random accounts on that kbin instance? That way we could get a representative answer for at least the whole instance.

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[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It would be more representative, but the thing that would kill it is it would also be annoying. I rolled my eyes at reddit pushing non-subbed content to me, and it would personally feel like a callback to that. Not out of disinterest in the poll, but because I didn't get to choose. User-generated pop-up is still a pop-up.

I'd be concerned about the possibility it may end up being a sub that's popularly blocked to avoid being spammed with unwanted questions, or at least one that's complained about.

[-] neon_cat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I understand what you mean. If we asked like 2% of all active users (which might be enough), you'd get a pop up on average once every 4 years, which is probably not enough to annoy anybody.

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