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Create a new poll on HN

• corin_ 16y ago
  "1 Mar: Polls Since polls are so common on News.YC, we just added explicit support for them. To prevent the site being swamped by polls for the next few days, we'd appreciate it if you'd only use this feature because there was something you already wanted to ask. There isn't currently any link to it, so you have to go to http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll to make a poll, and for the time being only users with over 200 karma can make them. Once people get used to this we'll open it up to everyone." Seems that has now been reduced to 20 karma - but I believe the logic of not linking to it to prevent polls taking over the site still stands.
• msluyter 16y ago
  Weird. I get the error "Sorry, you need 20 karma to create a poll, " despite having karma of over 1000. Perhaps this still has some bugs.
  • gus_massa 16y ago
    [EDIT: The last polls are from a user with 250 points, so the following explanation is wrong.] In the last months the site grow a lot, and the administrator made all(?) the karma thresholds bigger. Probably he changed the threshold for polls, but he forgot to update the error string.