I am also not sure why you would want people to comment on their feelings about your blog if they are not regular visitors. I would think that putting this pol

I am also not sure why you would want people to comment on their feelings about your blog if they are not regular visitors. I would think that putting this poll on your website would be enough. Getting a lot of outside influence through Hacker News might skew your data and you won't actually get an accurate representation of the people that frequent your blog.