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FAQ: Poll Authors - Re-Push Requests

FAQ: Key Threads - IMDb Poll FAQs Index
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Polls that are accurate, up to date and complete are more fun and satisfying. It's hard to make a perfect poll and the quality has been tremendous, but errors do slip in.

What we are describing below is a process for supporting post launch poll revisions.

Note: if you are looking to close a no longer relevant poll, check this thread: FAQ: Poll Close Requests

If you're a poll author, I would encourage you to revisit your thread and decide whether the post-launch suggestions (or any new ideas you have) are worth incorporating. Some things to look for.

Always OK Revisions
* Missing discussion board links
* Typos in descriptive text.
* Missing an obvious choice (an obvious option was overlooked at the time of poll publish)
These are usually ok to add, as long as it is to the END of the list. It is good form to add the date you added this choice to the description field for that choice. That way someone looking at the results will not be surprised this obvious choice has so few votes compared to the original entries.

Sometimes OK Revisions
* Missing/weak descriptive text.
Important! Do not change the feel of the poll. If your poll was for favorites,it must stay that. If it's a worst poll it must stay that. Does this make sense? Otherwise you're changing historic votes. That is bad karma. Adding a little color or description that keeps the feel of the poll is ok.
* Changing A Poll Title
Mostly discouraged, except for adding a question-mark if appropriate.
* Updating a Poll Due to New Information.
A new creditable entry, not due to an oversight comes up (e.g. a new release). We would generally discourage this if the poll has more than a few hundred votes. You maybe should consider a new poll?
* Fixing a image for character polls

Very Rarely OK Revisions
* Deleting a Choice
* Re-Arranging and Order of A Choice
* Re-pushing to Replace Valid Options Without Votes
These used to be impossible, but they are rarely OK. It is allowable in the case they do NOT affect any live votes and the duplicate choice and ALL items following it in the list have ZERO votes. If you have any doubt, please post to your original thread before making this change; if you do it incorrectly, you will never be able to update your poll again!

How to Proceed

If you are the author and want your poll re-pushed, make the changes to your original list in accordance to the instructions above, then reply to this post with the URL of the poll. This gives us (and other users) a chance to see these in a consolidated place and not hunt through threads. If you are not the poll author, you must contact the author by private message or the poll thread (or one our poll admins may be able to help you make a case).

A re-push request on this thread will be considered if formatted as follows

Ensure your reply incorporates the Poll title in the title of the post.

    Poll Title: O',brother,sister, who art thou

    Poll URL: http://www.imdb.com/poll/wvdPChk96q8/

    List URL: http://www.imdb.com/list/ls059040806/

    Reason: Fixing capitalization in title (add much detail as you like)

Poll board members, please feel free to comment on the proposed revision and offer your support or rejection of the change.

It would be reasonable to cross post to the original poll suggestion thread, but this is optional.

Note 1: here's a useful trick. Can't guarantee this will work forever but it works now. If you want to find the list from a poll, substitute the word"list" for "poll" in the URL and the list id will come up.
e.g. http://www.imdb.com/poll/wvdPChk96q8/ -> http://www.imdb.com/list/wvdPChk96q8/ will 'automagically' transform to http://www.imdb.com/list/ls059040806/

-hb

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If there's still any confusion as to which polls will be re-pushed, please ask so that we can clarify this for everyone as soon as practical.

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Re-Push #1

Title: Favorite Fictional 21st Century Jukebox Musical Movie

Thread: https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdb-poll/ps-favorite-fictional-21st-century-jukebox-musical-movie/67409f03d7e8146164155b28/

Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/pQuMN275tiw/

Poll List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls548912691/

Corrections: corrected note #8 "featuring songs of various genres from various musical artists"

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3 months ago

Title: The 10 Most Voted Movies by IMDb Users

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls566848527/ 
Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/jYd9Ig86q14/

Title: The 10 Most Voted Vampire Movies by IMDb Users

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls527219894/ 
Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/sEvvtK9TXuc/

Title: The 10 Most Voted Zombie Movies by IMDb Users

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls527202964/ 
Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/Ig2Uhq-sQXk/ 

Title: The 10 Most Voted Silent Movies by IMDb Users

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls525479730/ 
Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/sKDV961ao5M/ 

Title: Top 10 Most Voted TV Series by IMDb Users

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls566848637/​​ ​
Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/xxfKF5U5iMc/


Reasons: I update the data in the options.

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3 months ago

Re-push

Title: Best Cate Blanchett Movie Hairstyle

Poll link

List link 

Sprinklr link

Updated descriptions.

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3 months ago

Poll: Fake News

Poll here.

List here.

Reason:

Added more options.

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This would change the poll quite a lot. I'm not sure it is within the scope of the guidelines.

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2 months ago

Title: Stellan Skarsgård's Sagas

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls564128708/ 

Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/5FSKAtc0mWg/ 

Reason: I added a new option.

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2 months ago

Christmas Episodes on "Friends"

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls073164081/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/qUrX7u9zYNo/

Updated discussion link, updated title and descriptions, added link to "Big Bang Theory" poll.

Christmas Episodes on "The Big Bang Theory"

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls590178602/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/nIHEr6zao6k/

Added link to "Friends" poll.

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2 months ago

Title: One Piece Franchise

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls527673589/ 

Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/_Z0xAIvBeWs/

Reason: I added a new option.

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@GabrielFox​ Done

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Re-Push #1

Title: Most Anticipated Winter 2024 - 2025 Streaming Movie Release

Thread: https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdb-poll/live-poll-most-anticipated-winter-2024-2025-streaming-movie-release/671fbf598a87c338bc4d9503?commentId=67628c2a6db9ac3c538f9d87/

Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/sm-fTGcOIkg/

Poll List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls549435777/

Corrections: option 4 (Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever) doesn't appear in the poll. It looks like the url has been merged from tt34979382 into tt34977130. I replaced the title with the tt34977130 version.

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2 months ago

Re-Push #1

Title: Best Orangutan Movie Character To Go Ape Over

Thread: https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdb-poll/3-live-1-ps-best-hominid-movie-character-to-go-ape-over-ready/673c234d32277e07a752c976/

Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/LNWLaSgzXeg/  

Poll List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls548646520/  

Corrections: replace lesser known zero vote option with overlooked more popular, better known answer option @ #33 Mafu for #33 Spanky

Re-Push #2

Title: Favorite Fictional U.S. Space Force Movie Character?

Thread: https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdb-poll/live-poll-favorite-fictional-us-space-force-movie-character/6740c52b8ba21927329151e3/

Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/rR7_Zhvjqxw/

Poll List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls545315351/ 

Corrections: replace lesser known zero vote options with overlooked more popular answer, better known options @#30 Specialist Hansen for #30 John Brent, #33 Lieutenant Porro for #33 Thomas Dodge and #34 Dr. Barbara Shore for #34 John Landon

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@urbanemovies​ Repushed the orangutan poll.

You need to add the text with the date in option #33 of the space force poll before repushing

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@Pencho15​ It was already there, but it was missing a space between the text. I added the space and break, so it is more noticeable now.

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@urbanemovies​ Thanks.

Unfortunately I just noticed Porro has one vote, so it can't be replaced. If you want to add John Dodge it needs to be instead of someone else.

There are 19 options with 0 votes available besides the other two you have replaced.

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@Pencho15​ 

The vote must have been just placed, so I replaced Lieutenant Porro @ #33, and used #26 Major Maria Cooper instead.

Re-Push #2

TitleFavorite Fictional U.S. Space Force Movie Character?

Thread: https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdb-poll/live-poll-favorite-fictional-us-space-force-movie-character/6740c52b8ba21927329151e3/

Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/rR7_Zhvjqxw/

Poll List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls545315351/ 

Corrections: replace lesser known zero vote options with overlooked more popular answer, better known options @#30 Specialist Hansen for #30 John Brent, #26 Major Maria Cooper for #26 Thomas Dodge and #34 Dr. Barbara Shore for #34 John Landon

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@urbanemovies​ Thanks, and done.

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@Pencho15​ Thanks, well done.

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Title: Favorite Timothée Chalamet Movie

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls523368366/ 

Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/EREkJ8UfGNQ/ 

Reason: I added a new option.

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Christmas Episodes on "Friends"

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls073164081/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/qUrX7u9zYNo/

Added link to Frasier, minor intro description edit.

Christmas Episodes on "The Big Bang Theory"

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls590178602/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/nIHEr6zao6k/

Added link to Frasier, minor intro description edit.

Christmas Episodes on "Frasier"

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls590179988/

https://www.imdb.com/poll/IQxj1jjIB6U/

Minor intro description edit.

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Title: Favorite "American Dad" Christmas Episode

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls082491619/

Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/wsDQW8rnrh8/

Reason: Added a new option at the end of the list

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Favorite Phoebe Buffay Song?

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls076114204

https://www.imdb.com/poll/ZSvN--rPqe4/

Updated character link, discussion link, and updated several images.

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