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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
zxNoCategory
zzClosed
zzRemoved

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Dan.


Which is your favorite Wild Tale should be in the same category as favorite chapter from Inglourious Basterds?, that is Episodic. Since they ask for your favorite vignette in an episodic film. That would be the last poll of my authoring that has not been categorized.

I am not so sure Mother should be there since it is asking an opinion on a particular film.

I am thinking that Dangerous Media could be added to the political category, after all media plays a part in everyday politics. and the focus of the poll is about its responsibility which is a more political than movie related question

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Pencho15,

Thanks for the recommendations.

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6 years ago

As of 6-June-2018:

There are 11 polls that are not categorized (zxNoCategory).

Which is your favorite Wild Tale? is now in Episodic

I kept What Do You Think of Mother! (2017)? in Episodic pending finding a better category.

I want a LEGO version of ... is now in Remake

Dangerous Media! is now in Political

zxNoCategory
Vote Craziest/Weirdest Movie Parties
Vote Face-Off: Disney vs. Universal Theme Parks
Vote Face-Off: Hindi, Indie or... Indy?
Vote Improbable Movie Double Features
Vote Lesser Known but Watchable Films
Vote Love It or Hate It
Vote Movie You did not understand at all
Vote Sell That Product
Vote The Most Original Film Since 2000
Vote What If... You're Just Being Paranoid?
Vote Which four-letter word makes a film the most successful?

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As of 20-June-2018:

There are 4 polls that are not categorized (zxNoCategory).

zxNoCategory
Vote Face-Off: Disney vs. Universal Theme Parks
Vote Improbable Movie Double Features
Vote Lesser Known but Watchable Films
Vote Which four-letter word makes a film the most successful?

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Dan.

I been thinking and we have categories for Short Films, Video Games and Television. Thee different mediums for titles at IMDb.

Maybe we should not think too much and also have a category called simply Feature Film.
What Do You Think of Mother! (2017)? and any other future poll dedicated to a single film and impossible to cateforize by genre could be added there.

Also, at least two of the 4 remaining polls could be there. Improbable Movie Double Features and Lesser Known but Watchable Films

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Pencho15,

Feature Film seems like a reasonable category.

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Thanks again, Pencho15.

As of 27-June-2018:

I added this category:
FeatureFilm
Vote Improbable Movie Double Features
Vote Lesser Known but Watchable Films

There are 2 polls that are not categorized (zxNoCategory).

zxNoCategory
Vote Face-Off: Disney vs. Universal Theme Parks
Vote Which four-letter word makes a film the most successful?

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As of 11-July-2018:

There are 2 polls that are not categorized (zxNoCategory).

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As of 18-July-2018:

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Dan.


I've been thinking about the last two polls and I think I have a solution for them.

First, we have a category named Cinema, however there is not a clear definition about what should be included in it.Currently it only has polls with the words cinema or cinematic in the title.


However if we search for the Cinema definition it is: "the production of movies as an art or industry".
Under that definition Which four-letter word makes a film the most successful?, would perfectly fit that category.

By the way, also speaking about Cinema, I think this poll about Marvel movies should be categorized in MCU rather than in Cinema.

Then we would have the very tricky Theme Parks poll, while the obvious solution would be to create a new Theme Park category, I find that undesirable as it is very unlikely that category will ever have more polls in it.

The other solution which I think is better would be to put it under Disney. It is an existing an big category, and it is wide enough to not only consider movies but any Disney product, including its theme parks.

The solution is not optimal, as it leaves the Universal part of the face-off out of a category, but it has been done before. For example, the Face-off between Star Wars and Star Trek is categorized under Star Wars, even if that is accurate only for 50% of that poll.

If you agree with it, then this work of categorizing every poll would be finished, and I would only suggest once again to move the Mother poll from the episodic category, where it should not be to Feature Film where it belongs without question.

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Pencho15,

What you wrote makes sense. I will update the list the next time I do the poll summaries.

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There are NO polls that are not categorized (zxNoCategory).

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A cause for celebration after much hard work :)

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A cause for celebration after much hard work :)

Indeed!

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Thanks, Jessica.

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