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No points for polls.


Polls are a cheap way to generate comments, and the resulting points. Points should only be awarded for actually working, and for being original. Do some research. Write a team page or a bio. Submitting a poll should result in no points for the author. And even better, some cheap, one sentence, "go here for the rest of the story," with a link to another site, should result in negative points. If I want the rest of the story, I'll listen to Paul Harvey. And another thing, if your site was actually any good, don't you think we all would have found it by now?

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I am a cpcpMajor Leaguer
934 days ago
Score 4+-
So who do you suggest should go through every single submitted page and decide whether or not it's worthy of points? Negative points? The reason we have article voting and promoted opinions is to filter out the stuff that shouldn't get as much pull as the top stuff.
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TylersaltAll-Star
934 days ago
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It's the power of the free market!
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Alex HolowczakHall of Famer
934 days ago
Score 2+-
Yeah, do a biography or 100...
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False ProphetAll-Star
934 days ago
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Can't be done. It'd have to be manual, and it'd be a major pain to do. I've talked to Dan about other things, and he said that it's not worth doing. Besides that, CPCP is right. The point of Voting is so only the good articles make the front page, or the category page. If it's really spammy, like "Who is the greatest...", find out at <website>, an admin will delete it.
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False ProphetAll-Star
934 days ago
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And to the last point, no. I don't think anyone here discovered this site on our own. Chances are we were spammed or asked to come here (same thing), and it takes time for sites to get big enough to be discovered on their own. I'm not saying that the articles are good, but still...
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