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Polls brought a plague of dumb clickbaitiness to LinkedIn, unwittingly amplified by commenters complaining of their lack of nuance. Let’s not do that here
by asplake 5y ago
Polls brought a plague of dumb clickbaitiness to LinkedIn, unwittingly amplified by commenters complaining of their lack of nuance. Let’s not do that here
- jonathankoren 5y agoLet’s vote on it.
- seanhunter 5y agoExactly. If they start getting used at all, I hope the feature gets disabled.
- jmcgough 5y agoBack around 2012 HN had a massive amount of polls every day on the frontpage. I even wrote a scraper to scrape them all off and write them to a hnpolls website. Glad it's not really a thing these days.
- jfoster 5y agoProblems like that don't have to be solved by changing the existence of a feature. There are many ways to address such an issue; adjusting the incentives, changing the ranking algorithm, etc.