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The approved way of submitting a poll is at http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll --- this gives us proper poll options that do not end up hidden by other comments, and do not count towards karma. You will have noticed that some people mercilessly down vote all comments-masquerading-as-poll-options, to discourage this sort of karma whoring.