Can we stop Polls from bumping themselves?

[Squidget]

There have been a couple threads here about topics that appear to bump themselves without a reply, and the culprit seems to be polls. Anytime someone votes on a poll the topic is bumped to the top of the forums.

 

Frankly, there isn't any real reason for this, and it encourages people to make every topic a poll. Look at the NWN2 Gameplay and Rules forums to see what I mean - about 90% of topics there are polls, most of them for no real reason at all.

 

Is there any chance we could get this functionality removed?

[NeverwinterKnight]

i must admit that it gets a bit confusing in terms of remembering which threads ive viewed and which i havent. some threads are dead but if one person votes in it then it gets bumped back to life.

[EnderAndrew]

I agree. It's fairly annoying for those of us who try to keep up on several different forums.

[Hydrogen]

we're looking into it. I don't know what the answer is in regards to the software though.

[Darque]

I have an answer that'd work... remove polls

[EnderAndrew]

I think we should have a poll about this.

[Darque]

You're being difficult

[Squidget]

Any thoughts on this, guys? We've just had two pages worth of poll-bumping on the NWN Gameplay and Rules forums and I can no longer tell which topics are recent and which just got bumped.

[Judge Hades]

I am with Darque on this. Remove the Polls. They are more annoying than useful anyway. Or only let the Obsidian peeps make polls if they wish.

[Memengwa]

Yes, we want people to state their reasons behind their choices anyway, so the voting bumps are only annoing.

[Dethangels Shadow]

Any thoughts on this, guys?  We've just had two pages worth of poll-bumping on the NWN Gameplay and Rules forums and I can no longer tell which topics are recent and which just got bumped.

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Wait till you see the forums today....

 

Polls serve a purpose... but sometimes it can get silly. How about a forum JUST for polls..? Restrict them to devs/mods in the rest... if a poll is particularly interesting, it could always be moved.