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Saturday, February 20th, 2021 12:52 PM

Live Poll: A Poll Story

This poll is in celebration of 10,000 polls going live.

Thanks to all the poll authors, poll board members, poll administrators, voters and IMDb Staff for helping us reach this incredible milestone.

A special thanks to Dan Dassow for his ongoing work in compiling the statistics on which this poll is based.

From these poll milestones and other noteworthy polls throughout poll making history, which is your favorite?

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls083401175/

Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/1bMIyv9EUeM/

The 10,000th poll went live on March 6, 2021.

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3 years ago

Nice idea! Ready to go?

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Thanks. :)

Well, I'm open to suggestions.

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Are there rules? I could suggest:

Asking users for their fears.

or

The search for the most underrated movie.

But I'm not really sure, if they qualify. ;)

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I didn't go by any rules except that the polls should be milestones or stand out in some way. 

I know it may seem a bit random, but it's just meant to be a fun collection of some different types of polls.

But I guess I can't just add any poll from any category - that way the list would never end. :)

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That's interesting. But I think it shouldn't be a poll with 30 votes or something like that.

For your consideration look up. ;)

Athor suggestions for your consideration:

In a poll we celebrated Beethoven's 250th birthday.

In other polls we honored the most honorable deceased movie actors.

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Breu,

As I said, it can't just be any poll (no matter how good they are).

I tried to use some logic and make it fair by choosing the most voted poll of different types (image, character, face-off, poll board etc.), but it wasn't my intention that we should all nominate a favorite, as we have done that before. 

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3 years ago

Wow. I can't even remember the last time Jessica started a poll suggestion.

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It was last week, Jeorj.

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Somehow I always miss them.

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3 years ago

Jessica,

There is one obvious choice that only becomes valid after this polls goes live:

10,000th poll

This would also likely make this poll the first and only self-referential poll.

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Dan,

I actually considered that, but it just seemed too strange. :)

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Why not? Except it would be the 10.001st poll. For 10.000 you'd have to make a special option.

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Dan, do you really think it should be included?

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Jess,

I like the idea of a self referential poll. Even though I personally like the idea, it's not critical. If this poll is popular, including this poll as a choice could be added later.

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Dan,

I agree. I also think it would be cool, especially having the first and most recent poll as two options in the same poll, but it's probably best to only highlight other polls, which is the whole purpose of the poll. :)

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3 years ago

FYC:

Probably a poll with 10,000 in the title?

Hijacked at 10,000 feet!

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Sure, I guess it would be nice to have that number among the options.

Added. :)

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3 years ago

I remember being impressed with Rafael's "Who are you?" poll.

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Sadly, Rafael's "Who are you?" poll is a character poll and is no longer available for voting.

Snap shot of poll results from Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20171111043152if_/http://www.imdb.com/poll/1wyam4mgszE/results

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3 years ago

'Great poll, Jess, and I love the title. : )

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Thank you, Sara. :)

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3 years ago

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Congratulations, Jess on having the 10,000th poll.

Let me echo what Jess posted: Thanks to all the poll authors, poll board members, poll administrators, voters and IMDb Staff for helping us reach this incredible milestone.

If someone took all 10,000 polls and it took on average one minute per poll, it would take 6 days 22 hours and 40 minutes to take all the polls, 1 hour and 20 minutes shy of one week.

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Peter, Dan,

Thanks.

It's also nice having a poll on a Saturday. It's been a while. :)