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FAQ: List of Polls Alphabetical Within Category

I would appreciate feedback on whether this is a useful breakdown of live polls. Someone reviewing the list of polls on my blog suggested a list of polls by category. This is my attempt to address that suggestion.

This is my initial cut. I've been able to categorize about half of the polls. Most of the polls are not categorized (zxNoCategory).
I would appreciate suggestions for categories using short keywords as shown below.

http://mypollwatch.blogspot.com/2018/06/categories.html

Acting
Action
Actor
Actress
Adaptation
AFI
Africa
African-American
Age
AlternateStorylines
Amazon
Animals
Animation
Anniversary
Anticipated
AprilFoolsDay
Art-and-Literature
Awards
BadFilms
BAFTA
Beauty
Biography
Bird
Birthdays
Bodyguard
Bond
Books
BoxOffice
British
Cannes
Cars
Casting
Celebrities
Censorship
Characters
Christmas
Chroma
Cinema
Cinematography
City
ClassicFilms
Cliche
Collaboration
ColNeedham
Colors
Comedy
ComicBook
Comic-Con
ComicStrip
Costume
Countries
Couples
Credits
Crime
Critics
CriticsChoice
Culture
DCEU
Deaths
Detective
Dinosaur
Directors
Disaster
Disney
Documentaries
Dragon
Drama
Dreams
DVD
Emmys
Endings
Episodic
Era
Europe
Fans
Fantasy
Fashion
FeatureFilm
Festivals
Fictional
FilmHistory
FilmNoir
Flags
Food
ForeignLanguage
Franchise
GameOfThrones
Games
GameShow
Gangster
Genres
GoldenGlobes
Hair
Halloween
HarryPotter
Hero
Hijacked
History
Holiday
Hollywood
Horror
Iconic
IMDb
IMDb-India-Spotlight
IMDbPollBoardPicks
IndependentFilms
Indian
InMemoriam
Job
Kids
Language
Lawyer
LGBTQ
Locations
Logo
LotR
Make-up
Mask
MCU
Memorable
Men
Mentor
Moments
Monster
MPAA
Music
Mysteries
Names
Narrators
NationalFilmRegistry
Object
Olympics
OnTheSet
Oscars
Outerspace
Overrated
Parody
People
Performances
PhysicalFeatures
Pirate
Plot
Political
Posters
Prequel
ProductionBudget
ProductionCompany
ProductionProblems
Quotes
Razzie
RealityTelevision
References
Relationships
ReleaseDate
Religion
Remake
Ridiculous
Robots
Romance
RottenTomatoes
Royalty
Runtime
Sadness
SAG
Scenes
School
Sci-Fi
Seasons
Sequels
Series
Shark
SherlockHolmes
Shorts
Shows-within-Shows
SilentFilms
Similarities
Smile
SNL
Sound
Sports
StarTrek
StarWars
State
STEM
Streaming
Summer
Superhero
Tagline
TalkShow
Technology
Teen
Television
Thanksgiving
Theme
Thrillers
Title
Top250
Trailers
Transportation
Trilogy
Trivia
UserDemographic
UserRating
Vampire
VFX
VideoGames
Villains
VirtualReality
Voices
War
Weapons
Weather
Western
Women
Writing
Zombie
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Personally I don't see myself using it, but it may help others.

Something I'd love, that maybe you'd consider (or maybe there a way to do it now I just don't know about?) is being able to go to the archive list and look for polls that ran on specific days. Or at least the month and year they ran? I want to know how long ago a poll when live.

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If you want to know when a specific poll went live, you can switch to mobile view, which shows the date.

Example:
https://m.imdb.com/poll/TKiwPliypjU

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Thanks, Peter, this is very helpful. I update this FAQ to include this information:
FAQ: Key Threads - IMDb Poll FAQs Index

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Also, I include the date and time a poll goes live in an Excel file I update periodically on my Google drive. This is the latest version.

Poll Data:Poll_Data_2018-05-31.xlsx

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gbgrP23EbzyIDkTAFsCpqk2Bxt_FPqzm/view?usp=sharing
or
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wQ0zS1Q-SSJLvIFxDP7cpG4l82TEgECpLKANCz-5I5Q/edit?usp=sharing

I provide a link to the latest version in FAQ: Summary Statistics

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Thanks Peter - didn't know about that. But you still can't search by a date like this.

Dan, the excel page is great but I wish there was a way this worked within your Poll Watch Index.

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Jen,

The size of the Poll Watch blog (https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3900394678511523241#allposts) entries are already large. The Excel files are the only feasible way to include all of the information you and others wish to see.

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Extremely useful

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Yes, indeed, very helpful,

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All the Polls have Lists ?

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/-list-of-lists

Is there a way to make a List of Lists ?
I found other Lists I would like to list with one of My Lists
I do not want to copy the contents of other persons' list after they did all the work
Add by List number "ls000000000"

Posted May 16 2018
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How can I find the list upon which a poll is base?

All IMDb polls are based upon IMDb lists. To find the list upon which a poll is based, replace "poll" with with "list" in a poll URL. If you receive a 404 (page not found) error, the author of the poll deleted the list. If the list is deleted, the poll cannot be updated.

So, in this case:
● http://www.imdb.com/poll/4eyyw7SK-0s/ (poll)
● http://www.imdb.com/list/4eyyw7SK-0s/ (list)
● http://www.imdb.com/list/ls056959189/  (this becomes this list)

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FAQ: List of Polls Alphabetical Within Category
by Dan Dassow, Champion

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https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb

there is

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb?topic-list[settings][type]=recent
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb?topic-list[settings][type]=question
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb?topic-list[settings][type]=idea
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb?topic-list[settings][type]=praise
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb?topic-list[settings][type]=problem
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb?topic-list[settings][type]=update

Maybe make a different section
so Polls are not mixed with the Q&As etc...

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/polls

with  a list of polls by category

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/polls?topic-list[settings][type]=Animation
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/polls?topic-list[settings][type]=Anticipated
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/polls?topic-list[settings][type]=Awards
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/polls?topic-list[settings][type]=BAFTA
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/polls?topic-list[settings][type]=Cannes

? ? ?


and what is   -list[settings][type]   needed for ??

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ACT_1,

Get Satisfaction was created as a help desk message board. When IMDb deprecated the IMDb message boards, they moved the Poll message board to:
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/categories/imdb_imdb_poll

We are unable to add additional conversations types beyond recent, question, idea, praise, problem and update. Get Satisfaction controls which conversation types are available.

We use the conversation type idea for poll suggestions and praise for live polls.

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Get Satisfaction was created as a help desk message board
by Dan Dassow, Champion
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https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/categories/imdb_imdb_poll
Conversations
All (Conversations: 3704) | Questions | Ideas  | Problems | Praise | Announcements

So how are all the Polls mixed in with
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb

Polls can be fun and I have offered a few comments to some of them
I just object to them being 90% of GS

IMDb Boards were better organized
with One Board for each Topic
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Copy of some Old Boards:
https://filmboards.com/
https://filmboards.com/user/legacy/dan_dassow/

IMDb Poll
https://filmboards.com/board/141/
( no messages )
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https://www.google.com/search?q=site:IMDb.com+polls
About 43,600,000 results (0.22 seconds)

https://www.google.com/search?q=imdb+polls
About 71,800,000 results (0.22 seconds)
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Message Boards started May 7 1999
New Message Boards started Aug 6 2002
about 266,164,000 messages were posted Aug 6 2002 ... Feb 20 2017

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/imdb-message-boards



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https://www.imdb.com/user/ur0127678/
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur0127678/lists -  303 lists
Recently Taken Polls:


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Off topic ... but a curiosity

June 2 2018

https://www.imdb.com/poll/YVMdkD-trkk/
https://www.imdb.com/list/YVMdkD-trkk/
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls063666409/ - Access denied
https://m.imdb.com/poll/YVMdkD-trkk/
a Poll by ur68044248 - Created Oct 24 2016

Poll: What Is the Best Supernatural Show of All Time?
A poll by ur68044248
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur68044248/
The requested URL was not found on our server
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:IMDb.com+ur68044248

Discuss here
http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000088/nest/260132424 - Old Boards !

https://www.imdb.com/poll/YVMdkD-trkk/results
Results of 10,922 votes:
1. Lucifer (2015) - 1,883
2. Supernatural (2005) - 1,575
3. The X-Files (1993) - 1,383

Recent Activity
yuoxana voted for Lucifer (2015)
IMDb member since December 2016
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur70640337/

jamiemoons voted for Supernatural (2005)
IMDb member since June 2007
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur15693368/

rossfletcher-23249 voted for Lucifer (2015)
IMDb member since January 2017
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur71932432/

fluffi-91936 voted for Lucifer (2015)
IMDb member since June 2 2018  - New user!
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur88797413/

erhncavdar voted for Lucifer (2015)
IMDb member since June 2 2018  - New user!
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur88793569/

missvivipr voted for Lucifer (2015)
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IMDb member since June 2 2018 - New user!
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur88797997/

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IMDb member since June 2 2018 - New user!
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur88798208/

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IMDb member since June 2 2018 - New user!
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sniffygood voted for Lucifer (2015)
IMDb member since June 2 2018 - New user!
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur88798742/

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Add Names here ? ?
and Use Profile Page Links

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls062203075/
Poll Authors
by dan_dassow
created - 06 Feb 2017
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ur1239006
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls062203075/ur1239006
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur1239006

ur68044248
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls062203075/ur68044248
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur68044248

ur29503128
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls062203075/ur29503128
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur29503128
vamken46
IMDb member since December 2011
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More New Users voting for Lucifer (2015)

Poll: Favorite 2016 TV Show Tagline
https://www.imdb.com/poll/P1ZzdYdBJtc/
Results of 2,554 votes:
1. Lucifer (2015) - 433

Poll: Favorite DC Branded Live-Action TV Series
https://www.imdb.com/poll/8JCCFOWEDLA/
Results of 1,639 votes:
1. Lucifer (2015) - 871

Poll: Favorite New TV Show of 2015?
https://www.imdb.com/poll/yAtbcVYQ-bI/
Results of 6,023 votes:
1. Lucifer (2015) - 816

Look for User Numbers starting with
887 June 2
888 June 3

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Lucifer  (2015- )
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4052886/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4052886/reference
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4052886/ratings
113,737 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 8.2 / 10
10 - 39.6% - 45,016
09 - 22.2% - 25,212




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This looks awesome Dan; I think voters would agree.

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'Great job, Dan. I think it would be very useful. Bravo, "oh Captain, my Captain." :)

I'll try to brainstorm ideas for more categories.

So far, I've thought: independent films, non-English language films, women, "iconic"/icons, film festivals and awards (other than the Oscars and GGs)

I'm trying to think of a way to categorize  what, right now, I can only describe as creative, often humorous, out-of-the-box, often-Elmo-type polls. For instance, off the top of my head, I'm thinking of his "why did the chicken cross the road?" or my "Stewie Asks Hannibal Lecter for Tips..." but there have been many more.

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FYC:

-LGBTQ
-African-American
-IMDb (for example, polls like this: https://www.imdb.com/poll/uS91Bs-QyYg/?ref_=po_re)
-IMDb Poll Board Picks (perhaps combined with above "IMDb")
-Little-known Films
-Old or Classic Movies
-Political (for example: https://www.imdb.com/poll/uudKCAvTyok/, https://www.imdb.com/poll/9g-FF3NcPUc/, https://www.imdb.com/poll/fzcMAKcadPs/)
-Art and Literature (films adapted from books; poetry polls; polls about titles; polls about artists; polls about movies based on paintings; polls about posters inspired by paintings; etc.)

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Ruby,

Thanks. I will check which of your suggested categories work. There are still 3,215 polls that are not categorized.

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Ruby,
Thanks again. I updated the list, incorporating your suggestions for categories.

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Dan, from your uncategorized polls I think you can categorize this one in existing categories:

actors: https://www.imdb.com/poll/jyL_6AQgRp0/ and http://www.imdb.com/poll/n9V4RqD1udQ/

 actress http://www.imdb.com/poll/IrmSeNDA4NI/, http://www.imdb.com/poll/hr35s7Iqu2o/ and http://www.imdb.com/poll/6hNHf-1fKhA/

Directors: https://www.imdb.com/poll/U7Gj2BIZFrE/, http://www.imdb.com/poll/DOcg2qy1_LM/ and http://www.imdb.com/poll/6oxyvJ_wKhU/

Bond: http://www.imdb.com/poll/YFKCcWaMdAQ/, http://www.imdb.com/poll/dovJDPheLcw/, http://www.imdb.com/poll/9vyp0KGXQzU/ and https://www.imdb.com/poll/UUsb6fU-DTk/

Music: http://www.imdb.com/poll/5c2AALGcQu8/, http://www.imdb.com/poll/jXGTo88_SG4/, http://www.imdb.com/poll/ydCZm7flZHs/,  http://www.imdb.com/poll/eXBC7Xl3ssM/ and http://www.imdb.com/poll/3VKVU_SRwYw/ 

Game of Thrones: http://www.imdb.com/poll/aWz5bEGpauY/

Holidays: http://www.imdb.com/poll/Na_SrApqAA0/ and http://www.imdb.com/poll/swPGj01dT9c/

ClassicFilms: http://www.imdb.com/poll/pPNTjwDdl7A/

Disney: http://www.imdb.com/poll/Vc4xqmas4B0/

Marvel Cinematic Universe: http://www.imdb.com/poll/l-FjpsmHRgo/, http://www.imdb.com/poll/E7A1DtLsfIk/,  http://www.imdb.com/poll/24LVYvzC-xQ/ and http://www.imdb.com/poll/kfO2ID5csvE/

Lord of the Rings: http://www.imdb.com/poll/gs7usYeAiTc/

Quotes: http://www.imdb.com/poll/4rIL-VSrsd0/ and http://www.imdb.com/poll/HCwsX-w2PaU/

Fashion: http://www.imdb.com/poll/imXO8Gm-1FI/


Perhaps Amazon should be another category: http://www.imdb.com/poll/j2kFJ9_is1w/, http://www.imdb.com/poll/pbODxTtS_DQ/, http://www.imdb.com/poll/tfVso5qXdNE/, http://www.imdb.com/poll/ZEVBUQf_MsM/

Video games also have enough polls to merit a category

Also I suggest a category for personal information about IMDb users where polls like this could fit: http://www.imdb.com/poll/9pCXyIaW0QM/and other about beautiful persons where polls like this could fit:  http://www.imdb.com/poll/nOuMQkmyOuI/ but I don't know how can they be titled


What will you do with polls that fit in two categories?


You also have two polls incorrectly categorized as Indian, when they are Indiana Jones related: http://www.imdb.com/poll/codan0vuQFs/ and http://www.imdb.com/poll/2-DTM5lDKgQ/

However you could add this one in the Indian category: http://www.imdb.com/poll/G5AtEV7BQ5A/

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Pencho15,
Thanks for your very thorough review. This is very helpful.

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Pencho15,

Thanks again. Most of what you suggested worked great.

I will not further categorized any poll that's been closed (zzClosed) or removed (zzRemoved).

I added Amazon as a category. One of the polls you suggested was closed. I also found a few more polls that I categorized as Amazon.

I added VideoGames as a category.
Also I suggest a category for personal information about IMDb users where polls like this could fit: http://www.imdb.com/poll/9pCXyIaW0QM/and other about beautiful persons where polls like this could fit:  http://www.imdb.com/poll/nOuMQkmyOuI/ but I don't know how can they be titled
I'm not certain what to do with this suggestion.
What will you do with polls that fit in two categories?
When a poll fits within two or more categories, I look for the best fit. If I cannot determine a best fit, I arbitrarily choose the category.

I added IMDb-India-Spotlight as a category, which DC suggested below. This category will take precedence over Indian. I removed the Indiana Jones from the category Indian.

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Glad to help.

I will try to categorize the rest of the polls and suggest new categories for those missing a place

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Pencho,
I appreciate the help. This is list is definitely a work in progress, especially since we've not attempted to categorize polls for more than four and a half years.

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New category:

"IMDb India Spotlight" Polls

Which will also include all the polls created by IMDb India Editors.

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DC,

I added IMDb-India-Spotlight as a category.

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But, Dan you haven't add my polls.

You have added only India Editors' polls:

IMDb-India-Spotlight 
Vote Face-Off: 'Raees' vs. 'Kaabil'
Vote Favorite Anushka Sharma Movie
Vote Favorite Katrina Kaif Movie
Vote Favorite Shah Rukh Khan and Anushka Sharma Movie
Vote Favorite Shah Rukh Khan Movie
Vote Indian Movies out in Theaters this February
Vote Indian Movies Releasing in March 2017
Vote Indian Movies Releasing This Week
Vote March Movie Releases in India
Vote Most Anticipated Indian Movies of 2018
Vote New in Theaters This Republic Day
Vote Our 16 Favorite Shah Rukh Khan Movie Quotes
Vote Popular Prequels, Sequels, and Spin-offs in 2017
Vote 'S3' or 'Bogan'
Vote The Big Indian Wedding
Vote Which is your favorite Pawan Kalyan movie?

Here are mine:

"IMDb India Spotlight" Polls

1. Favorite Film Directed by Satyajit Ray
2. Favorite Hollywood Movie That Was Shot in India
3. Top 10 Indian Movies of 2016
4. Most Interesting Biopic of an Indian
5. Best Oscar Nominated Indian Movie
6. 35 Films from the Golden Age of Indian Cinema
7. Highest Grossing Indian Movies of All Time
8. A Tribute to Indian Film Legend Shashi Kapoor
9. 2017 in the IMDb Top 250 Indian Movies
10. The Kapoor Family
11. Oscar Nominated Indians

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DC,
I misunderstood your intent. I will update the list within the next two days.

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I'm confused about the difference between Indian and IMDb Indian spotlight. It seems to me they can be merged.

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Pencho,

DC will probably have to provide guidance on the distinction, if any. I believe that IMDb-India-Spotlight are polls that have been featured on Indian Spotlight (https://www.imdb.com/india/), whereas Indian polls are polls related to India that have not been featured on Indian Spotlight.
Even if there is a distinction, there may not be enough Indian polls to break them out separately.

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I think you should proceed with merging them and just call it Indian as it was, there's not much difference and the longer name may be more confusing.

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Thanks, Jessica! This helps a lot. Sadly, it reminds me of Drevnibor's departure.

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Thanks again, Jessica! I've updated the list with your suggestions.

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Pencho,

Thanks. I've updated the list to include your suggestions. We only have 2,334 polls with no category (zxNoCategory).

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Hi Dan! Great job! This could be helpful, but if some polls have overlapping category, this could be misleading if i'm looking for some specific polls

For example: https://www.imdb.com/poll/ZH3vQ-jzNHM/
this poll is in Game of Thrones category, but i'm not gonna find it if I'm search in LotR category

Or a poll like this: https://www.imdb.com/poll/1hpEZvhXPtI/
this poll is in Actor category, not in IMDb poll board category, so if one is looking at IMDb poll board category, they might miss this poll

In this case, people maybe have to think more than one category if they're looking for a complete list of poll. 

Could be better if you put polls with overlapping category in both (or more) category? But It will make the list more complicated and long. I don't know, just some thoughts. Perhaps you have better idea?

By the way I just found this poll https://www.imdb.com/poll/cJi7YRFyaxQ/ on Game of Thrones category, it should be on Marvel Cinematic Universe category, or maybe music category?

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peaspot,

Thanks for pointing out that this poll (GOTG 2 - Favorite Song From Awesome Mix Vol. 2) belongs in the MCU category. I will include this correction in the next update.

This is definitely a work in progress and there are probably quite a few polls that I've placed in the wrong category.

I fully agree that polls can fall into multiple categories. I hope to eventually allow for multiple categories. Unfortunately, multiple categories would complicate updating the list and would make a very long list even longer.

One possible solution would be to assign a poll to a primary category and include a note that the poll also falls into other categories.

For example:

GameOfThrones
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vote Friday Face-Off : Game of Thrones vs Lord of the Rings (Also: LotR)
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Gangster

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peaspot,
I've updated the list to address your suggestions. I've added secondary categories in my offline file; this in not included in the on-line version of the list.

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Dan, I have continued checking all the polls, after finishing the list of polls with A I have the following suggestions to categorize polls in existing categories:


Actor:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/DOJY6Tu2nYw/

Trailers:

http://www.imdb.com/poll/FI1MNeCT8zU/

Europe:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/qIAiH-Tskqc/

Animation:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/Q7JH6XzE1UU/

Awards:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/NltkFlb71kg/

Romance:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/-ovHbZHMPUI/

IMDbpollboardpicks:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/fTcdThKfhG0/

Arts and literature:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/ErJdGds8WNs/

MCU:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/nf2mL4FzIpM/

State:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/FCd6HbDe45Y/

Critics:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/mbD0j2hJbto/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/0NWJj1adpWw/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/p8YD4nN0Rcw/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/KwfTNyqkuHU/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/1TQKumw0tH4/ (This is the closet suggestion I found for this one, it refers to reviews and ratings but with a broad view of the category it may fit here)

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Pencho15,
Thanks. I've updated the list with your suggestions.

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I was just editing the list when you answered, I was about to suggest new categories, here they are:

Dan, I have continued checking all the polls, after finishing the list of polls with A I have the following suggestions to categorize polls in existing categories:


User Demographics:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/_9KzzMxp0CI/ (this one was missing in the original message for existing categories)

Plot: (For polls asking question about movies with similar plot points like:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/nHdQxNm_hzE/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/1hOSJDeBb0I/

http://www.imdb.com/poll/xIAf7_UYR6Y/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/wxjpeZfRW8k/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/wnNZSn3UfM/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/wiwfbtVZZSg/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/ptpujKLZL8c/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/RLTYjeByjgw/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/LQ5a4Bt0Db0/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/yCYuB78Herc/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/OAntGIP7ezA/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/PmYq8AOffs/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/3jRSw7X0uxM/

http://www.imdb.com/poll/aKMBd3z5Lpw/

Title: For polls that ask questions related to titles of movies or tv shows with something in common like:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/5hiIukdfHWQ/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/e_qVgxOhtuM/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/6S5VJtMtLwE/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/XZ_UH37BWYc/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/sNshyplAPwo/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/LOUn6XD1snc/

Scenes: Similar to plot, but this one dedicated to polls that ask questions about scenes (not the whole film) with something in common like:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/AHx-vM3zPcw/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/fRFOUyCBenU/

Language: It's self explaining I think:

http://www.imdb.com/poll/bvguukSU73E/

FilmHistory: For polls about milestones in film history

https://www.imdb.com/poll/--iYED4uzXA/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/R6h-5K3w7KI/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/MB_3T_ISV6c/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/cZxXWhAeSeo/

History: For historical events or persons

https://www.imdb.com/poll/Pm-Yq8AOffs/

Writing: For polls about scripts or film writers

https://www.imdb.com/poll/tLv8-aXipvY/

http://www.imdb.com/poll/rendmICsciQ/

Performances: We have actor and Actress, but there are polls that ask about performances and mix persosn from both genres, so they can be categorized here:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/XgTZmnocdYM/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/zMtFILBX-sA/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/G_o7xKZif5I/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/iQuvrz43KhY/

Productioncompany: There are categories for the big ones like Disney, but there are polls about the small ones, they all can be here and maybe the already existing categories could be subcategories of this one.

https://www.imdb.com/poll/-qP3k9oLkxU/

Costume: For polls about the costume design part of films. Currently I have only one poll, but perhaps there can be more about different parts of movie making and they all could be added to a wider category (polls about cinematography, make-up, production design etc)

https://www.imdb.com/poll/I_ScTbacduk/

Beauty: For polls asking who is the sexiest, best looking, more attractive, cutest or all kind of variations on the topic:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/HHZEQTfUe2o/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/rjzcQAfzvY0/

Age: For polls about people from different groups of age:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/S-HixSw8ytk/

Relationships: Family relations between celebrities

https://www.imdb.com/poll/l39I7YU-WJE/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/Gs1QkK1L1jI/

Locations: This is what I could come up for a poll like this It could fit plot or scenes, but I'm not so sure so I leave it for your consideration

https://www.imdb.com/poll/MXmEsdquXsw/

Africa: We don't have much polls about African cinema, but at least we have one

https://www.imdb.com/poll/gEvGhUZjjFo/

 April Fools Day:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/mSVATAP62JU/

http://www.imdb.com/poll/YhP0X4GpKQo/

Characters: Sometimes the poll is not about actors or actresses, but about a common trait in the characters they play:

https://www.imdb.com/poll/LdOZEDvCDOs/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/_1mAwmvnWoA/

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Pencho15,
Thanks for the suggestions. I will review your suggestions when I make the next update.

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Pencho15,
I updated the list with your suggestions. What you suggested made sense. I also made some additional updates as I saw them when adding your suggestions.

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