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Alex, polls are lame on Reddit. They're even lamer here since there's no down arrow. Please use Pollground or something similar.
by dfranke 20y ago
Alex, polls are lame on Reddit. They're even lamer here since there's no down arrow. Please use Pollground or something similar.
- ecuzzillo 20y agoHe could also use a comment, and then it wouldn't be quite as lame.
- brlewis 20y agoYou may already know this, but unlike reddit, comment scores here affect karma.
- dfranke 20y agoOne decent approach is to create two comments with instructions to vote one up and the other down, so you stay karma-neutral. So you need a total of 1+2n comments for a poll with n options. Like so: Do you think this is a good idea? (Vote this like you would an ordinary comment)
- dfranke 20y agoVote this up for yes.
- dfranke 20y agoVote this down for yes.
- dfranke 20y agoVote this up for no.
- dfranke 20y agoVote this down for no.
- davidw 20y agoAnother approach is to let PG take care of it and get back to working on something that matters, whatever that may be;-)
- dfranke 20y agoSigh. The sum of the scores on my four comments is now 6 and yesterday it was 3 (should always be 4). Apparently this is a bad idea.
- Alex3917 20y agoWell actually the point was to try to start an interesting discussion and get people sharing stories, but I see your point.
- pg 20y agoI'm going to add explicit support for polls. As soon as I get done reading hundreds of YC applications :(
- Readmore 20y agoHaha, well at least you fixed the 'not enough applications problem'! I would have submitted but I can't move this summer, although I think just getting feedback from yCombinator would be worth it to me. To bad time is your most precious commodity.
- bootload 20y agois there any way you could filter applications before reading them?
- pg 20y agoWe do, in a sense: some people who apply we already know, because people we've funded recommended them. If you can impress the founders of a YC startup, that counts for a lot. This site was designed partly as an additional filter. It works too. When I met danielha I knew his name because he was #1 on News.YC.
- BrandonM 20y agoOf course, the best way to counter this is to go around downvoting Alex's comments that aren't particularly interesting or insightful. I wouldn't normally do something like this, but in order to make up for 74 (!) upvotes, it might be necessary.