> Is it just me or is it a cheap way to flood the front page for a bit of karma?
It's just you. As soon as somebody determines why HN karma is worth a damn, then it's a problem.
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#12Irony. I get it.
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#13Thanks, I had the same idea!
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#14I like the polls. The thing is you don't get karma/points when someone votes. Someone has to upvote it to have it stay on the front page. If you don't like the poll or polls in general then you shouldn't up vote them.
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#15I'd like to complain about people who hold things up by complaining about people that complain. It's about time something was done about it.
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#16Is the number of polls getting out of hand? Yes and no. I think there was a flood of them in the past 48-72 hours but that should die as the most common questions get answered. From my standpoint its an easy way to gain statistics on HN users, however it may also be the way to quick karma as you mention. I created a CS degree poll in the last 24 hours not for karma whoring but because I'm questioning my own education and lack of theoretical foundation, finding out whether that attributed to success or negatively impacted members here is helping me on the road forward.
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#17I've not really noticed many on the front page up until the last week. Temporary boom, it'll go back down soon enough.
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#18What gets me.. is that i did this poll and it just dropped! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3781723
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#19disclaimer: I have an ongoing one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3788303)
I find both the polls, their results (even considering HN is a very biased sample) and, most of all, the discussions they generate very interesting. When the kind of smart people who comes here debate, I always end up enlightened.
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#20I don't have a problem with polls, per se, but the ones coming up lately seem totally pointless. "What kind of OS do you use" is most often the opener for the Eternal Argument. Plus we're talking about a fraction of a fraction of an already small community, self-selected so those who want to assert that their OS (or whatever) is The Best are much more likely to comment. It might be better phrased "what OS are HN users most passionate about?"
Anyway no one's putting a gun to my head and making me read it, so carry on. :)