Why dont you guys allow everyone to create polls? I mean there are a lot of really good uses for them

In the past people abused them. They'd make a regular topic and have some irrelevant poll, or a useless poll. If you ask a mod to add a poll to a topic they'll usually do it for you if it's relevant.

Unfortunately, no, there aren't that many good uses for them. They did exist before but users just kept making polls like "what's better, pizza or hamburger, rune long or rune scim?" and stuff.

 

 

 

A poll is only really useful when its results will actually be used for something, such as right now, for the sub forums, or when someone is deciding which event out of many he/she is planning to hold.

 

 

 

Not much reason to have a poll just for opinions without consequences, since all that can be discussed in normal posts. Sometimes those are good too, but most of the time they're spam.

 

 

 

You can still PM a mod requesting a poll, and they'll check if it's really needed.

I haven't seen a use for a poll in a looooong time. Well, except in official topics (such as the subforums discussion / vote) and for some Arenascape topics.

ii have had 1 poll of my own in the past..yes it was annoying waiting 2 or 3 days for it to be added..

 

 

 

i however wasn't here when people abused polls so dont know how bad it was...but i believe people would make stupid polls

I'll give you an idea of what people would do....

 

 

 

Find any topic in Off Topic that's a question, and add a poll to it #-o