It's basically Boaty McBoatface again with similar lessons of "don't run online polls". Fooy McFooface is the inevitable outcome of online polls which are open

It's basically Boaty McBoatface again with similar lessons of "don't run online polls". Fooy McFooface is the inevitable outcome of online polls which are open to the entire internet, allow arbitrary submissions, and can have traffic easily driven to them. Other forms of online polling -- high-turnout votes with a preset voters list, polls which are hidden away in unlinkable parts of member-only sites, or polls with a moderated list of options, for example -- don't have those problems.