Talk:Daily Poll

Suggest A New Poll Question

Due to the technical restrictions of the wiki polling format, you have to be extremely careful about the wording of your question and possible answers.
 * Any changes will negate previous votes. That is, you gotta stay the course.  Do not change once added.  You must always remember.

Please post them here first.

Wikiality.com will try to post them with the correct spelling and grammar, etc. Obviously no one is perfect, but with the way the poll works, we have to try.

Hint: check the almanac for hints on daily poll questions.

Supreme Court Decisions
Now that the 2006-2007 term for the Supreme Court has concluded, which of their decisions was your favorite? --WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 17:09, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Bong Hits 4 Jesus


 * 2 terrorist cases v Rumsfeld--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 18:03, 25 June 2007 (UTC)


 * "Give Atheists Special Treatment" Case--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 18:08, 25 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Anti-Trust-Busting, Price-Fixing


 * "Supreme Court v. Browns, Boards of Education"--thisniss 01:30, 30 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I think this one could be used after the ruling on the Gitmo detainees. Any suggestions on lang would be appreciated.--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 22:39, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Best Gay Cure

 * Praying
 * Streisandectomy
 * Angelina Jolie Therapy--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 17:09, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Bruce Willis Therapy--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 22:21, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
 * eat more red meat--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 01:07, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Elisabeth Hasselbeck's saliva, best applied directly to mouth and other sensitive regions as necessary. - The Lake Effect 19:12, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Favorite Old Disneyland Rides
Disneyland opened to the public on July 18, 1955, it has recently revived the submarine ride. Which of the retired Disneyland rides was your favotire?
 * New Orleans Square
 * Uncle Walt's Frozen Mustache Ride
 * Monsanto Presents: Adventure Through Inner Space with Scale Model of the Nucleus You Can Watch Your Spit Sizzle On.

Lieberman's Party Asks Him to resign
On june 19, 2007, Connecticut for Lieberman, Lieberman's party has asked him to resign.

Which party should he join? GOP Dems Bloomberg Party Lobbyists for Lieberman--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 16:59, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

How Will You Be Spending Your 4th?
enjoying a picnic with friends & family, then fireworks backyard BBQ, then fireworks taking advantage of all the sales, then fireworks crying because Stephen will be in repeats for another week and a half

Obama's last name is
This could be used as a repeating poll on slow days or when Obama is big in the news:

Obama's last name is:
 * bin Laden
 * Hussein
 * Islamo
 * Clinton (he's actually Bill's illegitmate daughter with an Islamo intern)
 * He has a last name?

Just for reference sake: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama Last name is Clinton? --Pro-Lick 16:59, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

How Life On Earth Will End
Likely Ways Life on Earth Will End

Major Strike by an Asteroid or Comet Earth is Swallowed by a Man-Made Black Hole Global Warming Worldwide Pandemic Robots Take Over The World Gamma Ray Burst Nuclear Holocaust Overpopulation--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 01:15, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

News Corp's Possible Name Change
Now that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation owns the Wall Street Journal, what should he rename the paper? Fox Street Journal The No Spin Journal--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 01:34, 7 July 2007 (UTC)


 * News Wall Corp.--Pro-Lick 00:28, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Corporate Street Journal--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 00:36, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Most Desirable Sperm
1,000 Chinese women were asked whose sperm they would prefer.

Dispersed among the obvious choices of Chinese actors was David Beckham and Brad Pitt.

The name at number 2 was Bill Gates. Stephen Colbert was not on the list anywhere.

What the hell is wrong with these women!?--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 00:51, 9 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Benefits of the free market economy - they can already buy formula 401.--Pro-Lick 22:15, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Which is why they should love it, first time's free &all.--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 22:32, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Poll dead?
All the poll answers are blank. A wikia problem?--Pro-Lick 23:02, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Haven't the slightest idea! But wikia has installed a new search feature, I wonder if the update negated the polls...--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 23:22, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * FYI I asked wikia (at the irc) to look into it, and I hid the polls so people won't vote and then when wikia gets the old ones restored, they lose their votes.--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 23:38, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Today's poll will be/would have been:

Our troops battled and killed Iraqi police today because: Blackwater USA trained the Iraqis so well they can't be trusted. Al Qaeda infiltrated the Iraqi police department. They're working with their buddies from Iran. They all look like Pat Tillman.

Yesterday's probably would have been the supreme court question at the top of this page.--Pro-Lick 22:54, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, Pro, I asked wiki again at irc and all they can tell me is that they are working on it and will inform us when it is fixed on this site (probably my talk page, since I alerted them to the problem).
 * You know, you might be able to post new ones, that don't effect the old ones. I'm gonna ask...--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 22:57, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Apparently the guy who's working on it is in Poland, and he is sleeping right now (2 am or so)...I am inclined to post something, what do you feel?--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 23:25, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * If you do, keep the other ones hidden.--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 23:26, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * My gut feels the same. I'll try as with old hidden. I posted in the wikia software problem forum too just in case having a problem and response wiki'd improves response benchmarks.--Pro-Lick 23:31, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I forgot to say that I hid the poll again, due to the repair surge still being given a chance to repair the ongoing terrorist bug. Thank you for supporting our President.--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 01:20, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, apparently, there may be a "confusion" as to what "problem" needs to be "fixed". I hope it's not due to you asking and then me asking too, and then wikia getting confused as to what is wrong and what needs fixing.--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 15:34, 16 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Here's the forum message I posted that includes the reply.
 * Poll results gone, appears on all Wikia polls--Pro-Lick 15:50, 16 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Here is the question I asked about starting new questions, no reply (at least not yet)--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 16:04, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

tags in poll text
just to let you know, the top poll had reset (all votes at 0), so i took the opportunity to remove the tags on the top line there. when i was working with the poll to try to get it to do something else, i found that these (and almost anything beyond the wiki bold or ital markup) caused it to add that [edit] text in the top left corner. not sure if this is a new thing/part of the brokenness or what, but thought you might like to know since using the wiki markup seems to avoid it.--thisniss 11:46, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
 * also, no matter how uggs that little [edit] is (and it's probably the kind of thing that only bothers me/those with OCD), you won't be able to remove the tags from any of the old polls without resetting them, because they are clearly being read in some weird way as part of the titles. that's probably obvious, but i wanted to make sure i said it before causing some accidental poll-reseting disaster. like i said, the only reason i changed the top one was because it had already been reset, so it wouldn't effect the outcome.--thisniss 11:53, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I think it may be a Firefox or a browser cache thing. Anyway, it goes away and stays away in another browser without anything in the cache.  If it returns, we shall complain over in the wikia forums.--Pro-Lick 15:13, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Browser thing, yes; cache thing, I don't think so (I work on several comps, clean caches). It's not a big deal, imo, just a little funny looking if you happen to be using the wrong browser. And it might disappear randomly at some point, who knows?


 * But I'm wondering if the questions have to have the tags? I am probably missing something really obvious here, but to me it looks like the wiki markup produces the same result (bold text) and the wiki version gets rid of the "edit" bug for all browsers. The "feature" pretty much sucks, has always sucked, and probably always will suck, so it's all work-arounds anyway until something less temperamental is developed. --thisniss 20:06, 17 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for having the thatchers to bring this up. There really should be no markup inside the s.  Everything in the first line is interpreted as the question no matter what, formatted the same no matter what, and most importantly, becomes the ID for the poll, even the  .  So all previous tagging has to remain.  New polls will just have the first line with no markup, followed by each option.  Within 7 days or so, the entire page will have no markup inside the s and the [edit]s will be gone.  This should not be viewed as a change in course.--Pro-Lick 03:27, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Archive this page (talk)?
Any preferences as to whether we keep old suggestions and discussion? Technically, they're forever stored via history. Will that do for here?--Pro-Lick 03:33, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't feel this talk page needs archiving.--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 16:16, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

Proportional Response
The former head of China's Food Safety Ministry was sentenced to death. What would be appropriate punishments for American officials wrong-doing? (this can be for real or fictional offences)--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 16:19, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

CNN YouTube Debate
So far, only 2 republican candidates have agreed to participate in a "YouTube-style" debate (like the democrats did) What will it take for all GOP presidential candidates to agree to do it?
 * CNN guarantees it will be interrupted by "breaking news" about terrorists
 * all questions are just Jeff Gannon asking about how democrats have no plan for anything and why that is
 * that it be on FOX instead of CNN and the only videotaped questions are from each other

That's all I got so far.--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 03:15, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Services for Soldiers
A recent article in the New York Times said that bases will no longer be holding individual services for each individual soldier, instead they will be consolidated into one service per month.

Why can't the Army recognize each soldier individually?
 * the Army cannot meet its recruitment numbers, much less the surge numbers needed for success in Iraq, let along real buglists or pall bearers for military funerals
 * Hillary Clinton insists she have a photo op at each funeral and can only go to one per base
 * no one who volunteered for military service signed up to play dress-up at some photo op for Hillary Clinton

That's all I got right now.--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 04:24, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Also, there is a related game about helping the Army meet recruitment goals.--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 06:26, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Military Suicides
Press reports claim approximately 116 suicides in Iraq. Whatever that means.

What does that mean?
 * the soldiers hear what Harry reid is doing and are despondent.

Quick start--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 05:55, 29 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you. I can now operate on gut alone for the first few days next week.--Pro-Lick 04:55, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I feel your gut is more attuned and perhaps more ballsy than mine is...my "answers" to poll questiojns don't have quite the zing yours do. I just thought I might add a few suggestions, which you could fix up before being posted.--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer

Raid on Ted Stevens' Place, Chief Justice Roberts' Seizure
Are they related? Ted "no" Stevens

and

Roberts' seizure--WatchTVEatDonutDrinkBeer 23:56, 30 July 2007 (UTC)