Are polls helpful?

I have added polls to some topics in order to gather more quantitative than qualitative feedback on extension ideas or implementation quirks. Is this a good idea? Am I overdoing it with too many questions? Am I providing too little context?

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You need to include some “none of these” and “other” options for the radio polls.

Checkbox polls don’t appear to allow empty submission either, which is somewhat problematic, so a “none of these” option could potentially be somewhat helpful.

I tried to make the options cover all cases for single-select questions. Where exactly did you miss a none of these option?

Multiple-selects have an optional min attribute, but while you can leave it out altogether, which is what I did in the end, you cannot set it to 0. I thought they would support empty submissions this way because it makes no sense to be able to tick some specific answer together with none of these.

I would advise against polls in general. Better to explain your position in words, with examples.

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