Remove polls

[Mímir]

Hey how about we remove the polling option on the forum?

Everyone with a slight insight into quantitative methodology* are aware that the polls on this site will tell you absolutely nothing at best, and in some cases polls will provide people with a false sense of justification/majority; which in turn leads to excessive whining about engine colors and battleship scanners etc.

They do more harm than good, in other words.

*Obviously the poll cannot be said to be representative, forum users are the target population in matters regarding users of the server in general; we're only 20-30 active posters (of which half probably don't even play), and we mostly participate in the poll when we personally have something at stake. In objective terms the polls are near worthless, but it gives people a false idea that they are part of some sort of majority movement when we cannot know whether or not that is the case, and that leads to these people getting butthurt when things don't go their way because they truly believe that they are the majority.

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