Polls

Polls enable users to post and vote on simple questions. Sometimes these can be for fun, or purely for general information. However, we could also use them to improve the site. For instance, if we created a poll asking about the most popular area of the site, or which are needed more improvement, we would gain a general picture of which areas of the site need more attention and could be improved. Alternatively, we could ask what breed of dinosaurs our users have, giving us statistics on the more popular breeds. This could either help us curate more content and discussion around those breeds, or prompt us to try and get more keepers of other breeds signed up to the site, to make the discussions more varied.

Polls are created from the Add content section where, unlike with most other content, we don't provide a title and body of content. Instead, we provide a question (which is really the title renamed!) and a number of possible answers:

We can also set the poll Active or Closed (that...