# Are polls helpful?

**URL:** <https://talk.commonmark.org/t/are-polls-helpful/2925>\
**Category:** Meta\
**Created:** [September 18, 2018, 11:26am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/are-polls-helpful/2925 "2018-09-18T11:26:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Crissov](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/crissov/32/1455_2.png) [@Crissov](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/Crissov)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2018, 11:26am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/are-polls-helpful/2925/1 "2018-09-18T11:26:24Z")

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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?

- [Why is "link text" not allowed to "contain other links"?](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/why-is-link-text-not-allowed-to-contain-other-links/2434/16)
- [Feature request: automatically generated ids for headers](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/feature-request-automatically-generated-ids-for-headers/115/91)
- [Anchors in markdown](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/anchors-in-markdown/247/33)
- [Support for image dimensions](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/support-for-image-dimensions/148/40)
- [Info strings for suffixed headings](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/info-strings-for-suffixed-headings/2902/2)

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**Author:** ![zzzzBov](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/zzzzbov/32/218_2.png) [@zzzzBov](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/zzzzBov)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2018, 8:42pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/are-polls-helpful/2925/2 "2018-09-19T20:42:29Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Crissov](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/crissov/32/1455_2.png) [@Crissov](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/Crissov)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2018, 5:20am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/are-polls-helpful/2925/3 "2018-09-20T05:20:08Z")

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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_.

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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/codinghorror/32/2_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 11:44am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/are-polls-helpful/2925/4 "2019-01-21T11:44:53Z")

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