Polls on UHH? I see on other forums there is the ability to create and view polls. Does UHH have this capability? I can't find it if it does. Is there are reason to not include this...

Just Fred Loc: Darwin's Waiting Room

I see on other forums there is the ability to create and view polls. Does UHH have this capability? I can't find it if it does. Is there are reason to not include this ability? I was curious as to what members find their favorite photography topic, and thought a poll might be the way to find out.

Bill_de Loc: US

It's been brought up a number of times during the the years you've been a member, but I don't believe anything has changed.

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rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Scripted polls are essentially useless. Why, you ask? Because they represent only a very narrow picture of reality. You are given the choice between A, B, C or D. But in way too many cases, there needs to be an E, F, G, H... and so on, you get my point. It really shallows the pool of answers when only a select few are available to choose from thus making the results, for most purposes, virtually useless.

Haydon

rmorrison1116 wrote:

Scripted polls are essentially useless. Why, you ask? Because they represent only a very narrow picture of reality. You are given the choice between A, B, C or D. But in way too many cases, there needs to be an E, F, G, H... and so on, you get my point. It really shallows the pool of answers when only a select few are available to choose from thus making the results, for most purposes, virtually useless.

I suppose in the seriousness of what they could represent your observation may be astute but on the other hand they could contrive some harmless laughter depending on the content.

rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Haydon wrote:

I suppose in the seriousness of what they could represent your observation may be astute but on the other hand they could contrive some harmless laughter depending on the content.

How true indeed.

DJ Mills Loc: Idaho

A poll would be fun, but invalid. When only those who want to respond answer the questions, it becomes an "unscientific" poll. You see this all the time online. Example: "Is Trump doing a good job?"

Just Fred Loc: Darwin's Waiting Room

DJ Mills wrote:

A poll would be fun, but invalid. When only those who want to respond answer the questions, it becomes an "unscientific" poll. You see this all the time online. Example: "Is Trump doing a good job?"

Just to be clear, I wasn't attempting to establish any sort of "scientific" poll. In fact, the poll I had in mind was something like this:

Among which of the following subjects is your favorite?

Landscape
Portrait
Flora
Fauna
Birds
Patterns/Geometrics
Other

With possibly a few additional items. Purely for fun. I was/am interested in what the majority of UHH'ers like to photograph.

DJ Mills Loc: Idaho

Just Fred wrote:

Just to be clear, I wasn't attempting to establish any sort of "scientific" poll. In fact, the poll I had in mind was something like this:

Among which of the following subjects is your favorite?

Landscape
Portrait
Flora
Fauna
Birds
Patterns/Geometrics
Other
With possibly a few additional items. Purely for fun. I was/am interested in what the majority of UHH'ers like to photograph.

I get it. It sounds fun.

quagmire Loc: Greenwood,South Carolina

Just ask what people like to photograph, and people will answer.

Just Fred Loc: Darwin's Waiting Room

quagmire wrote:

Just ask what people like to photograph, and people will answer.

That's not as fun.

Besides, having looked at photographs here for the past four years, I pretty much have a good idea.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Years ago when I carried two golf magazines, one of them ran a poll about what golfers enjoyed more, golf or sex. Golf won in a very close contest. I'd like to see the outcome of that poll with photography.

Soul Dr. Loc: Beautiful Shenandoah Valley

SteveR wrote:

Years ago when I carried two golf magazines, one of them ran a poll about what golfers enjoyed more, golf or sex. Golf won in a very close contest. I'd like to see the outcome of that poll with photography.

Depends on your age! If you are old and retired it would be photography, if you are young and in the prime of life it would be sex if you have a normal functioning brain.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Soul Dr. wrote:

Depends on your age! If you are old and retired it would be photography, if you are young and in the prime of life it would be sex if you have a normal functioning brain.

You'd have to be pretty old if you ask me. So old that nurses might be one's only subjects.

Apaflo Loc: Anchorage, Alaska

SteveR wrote:

Years ago when I carried two golf magazines, one of them ran a poll about what golfers enjoyed more, golf or sex. Golf won in a very close contest. I'd like to see the outcome of that poll with photography.

Golf would win by an even higher margin.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Apaflo wrote:

Golf would win by an even higher margin.

It was very close among readers, but golf did win. I played club golf for awhile. Nothing elite, but we did have tournaments every month, divided according by flight according to handicap. Each year there were a Member-Guest and Member-Member tournaments as well with callcuttas, which were wild and fun, and dinner and dancing afterwards with awards. They were all very competitive within the flights but great fun through the years. You'd have to hurry up to sign up for the tournaments as well before the maximum number of 144 players filled up. Post tournament 19th hole was great fun waiting for the scores to be posted as well. The women in the club, wives mostly, were no slouch either. They could play. People took their golf seriously. It's a shame that the company that owned the club mismanaged things and went bankrupt. We had some great times.