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Optimizing polls
I never made bones about beeing German. Germans like to optimize things to simplify and make them practical, something we have in common with Japanese people, even though they are better about doing that. In the past I suggested to cut the term "Poll Suggestion:" in the title to "PS:", which was accepted by e.g. urbanemovies. I also changed my own poll suggestions into the form:
"Intro:
Suggestions:
List:
Polls: TBD"
No one has to do it, but I think it's practical to make it like that.
Why do I make this thread? I made up that threat to give a platform for ideas to make poll writing more innovative. It's for suggesting and discussing procedures about poll suggestions. Recently, I I've put "(rtg)" at the end of the titles of my poll suggestions to mark them as "ready to go". If you have good ideas, please let me know.
Usefull pages for making a poll:
FAQ: So You Want to Make an IMDb Poll? Here's How... | IMDb Community Forums (sprinklr.com)
FAQ: Poll Making with Character Pages | IMDb Community Forums (sprinklr.com)
FAQ: Poll Authors | IMDb Community Forums (sprinklr.com)
FAQ: Poll Authors - Re-Push Requests | IMDb Community Forums (sprinklr.com)
FAQ: Key Threads - IMDb Poll FAQs Index | IMDb Community Forums (sprinklr.com)
Peter_pbn
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New users who visit the community's main page won't know what PS means.
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urbanemovies
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@Breumaster FYC
I like using the P.S. abbreviation too. As it makes it easier to read the titles on a single line when scrolling through the poll message board. Plus, if you only use it in the title and not in the body (use poll suggestion), it makes it easier to search and manage your outstanding poll suggestions (when using P.S. as your search term and your username on the advanced filter). You can see the status of each poll suggestion, ensure your suggestions are properly classified as ideas, and to check to see when you last had a comment. I find it be a far more efficient approach.
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Breumaster
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I think it's better to put the ending (rtg) on the title when it's ready to go. So the administrators know if ther user still sees improving potential, or if it's considered to go live by the user. The administrators still can ask for corrections, then.
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gromit82
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In English, "P.S." most often means "Post Script" which is something that a person writes at the end of a letter. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postscript.)
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Breumaster
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I also think that "(ready)" wold be better and join urbanemovies to mark my ready ideas with (simply) "(ready)"
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jeorj_euler
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Sprinklr (in the context of the way IMDb staff have set it up their community site) doesn't exactly make navigating these boards easy. Isn't there a way to pin important threads so that they appear at the top of the automated index of threads.
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Pencho15
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I think I am the only one that still uses Sugg: instead of poll suggestion, that's as we used to do it in the old message boards.
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ACT_1
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? ?
imdb.sprinklr.com could add this to the top of page message 🙄
The IMDb Poll is an ongoing set of polls about movies and television.
Do not need in link name:
IMDb Community Forums (sprinklr.com)
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P.S. (Post Script)
Keep "Poll Suggestion:" not "PS:" 😀
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Peter_pbn
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This is outdated and not useful:
FAQ: Poll Making with Character Pages
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