Would Lemmy Benefit from Implementing Polls? ( slrpnk.net )

A popular way of dealing with discussions, and familiar to most people, I assume. As far as I see it, adding a poll system to Lemmy is a good way to enhance user engagement. I'm not really aware if this has been a topic before or not, tried looking it up but didn't see much juice on the topic, so thought I'd spark it up.

Personally would like to see polls, but I'm sure there are people who don't want it too. Let me know your thoughts 🌻

Andonyx ,

Why is Javascript on Twitter?

Sunny OP ,
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This wasn't taken from Twitter.

Andonyx ,

That was a lame joke about the check mark. 😔

Sunny OP ,
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Oh, that was a bit difficult to catch hehe 🙃

corsicanguppy ,

Benefit of

You mean 'Benefit from', here, right?

Sunny OP ,
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yeah.. not my mother tongue sorry.

glimse ,

I do not want to see polls added unless it's only moderators and admins who can post them. If Lemmy is anything like reddit (it is), the vast majority of them will be useless clutter...people posting polls as "content."

It encourages clicking a button over leaving a reply. We'll get a thousand "Do you think [thing] or [other thing]" posts with very little engagement.

solrize ,

I'm kind of against this unless people's responses are kept private for real (i.e. not stored on the server). Otherwise it's just more kompromat piling up.

Carighan ,
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If you're the Consort, that's an important part of your endgame scoring! (Stationfall board game 😛)

smeg ,

How do you store who has voted and what the results of the poll are without storing results on a server? Ultimately it's just the same sort of data as who upvoted and downvoted what, right?

RobotToaster ,

One way encryption, same way passwords are stored.

smeg ,

Would that work to obfuscate up/downvotes in general?

RobotToaster ,

Potentially, but any amount of obfuscation opens up the system to abuse.

If you trust the server hosting the community to handle all encryption, it's trivial for the admin to disable.

If you trust the server sending the vote, then it's trivial for a server admin to game the system and send hundreds of votes.

solrize , (edited )

It's better than nothing if you record that account X voted in poll Y without recording how they voted. Just keep count of the # of votes for each option. After the poll closes, delete the list of voters for that poll. It might be possible to do something fancier to get more privacy.

nutsack ,

can filter out image posts please i hate memes

Sunny OP ,
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You could just block the communities and instances..?

nutsack ,

There are communities with a mix of good content and meme spam

smeg ,

Some clients let you do that

nutsack ,

I have yet to find one. The domain filter trick used to work on Reddit because the images had a different domain name that they would be hosted on. That's not true for Lemmy

smeg ,

I'm using Summit, it can toggle off links, texts, pictures, and video posts

nutsack ,

holy shitnuts my man than you

TrickDacy ,

So you hate 99% of Lemmy then. Maybe stop using it?

glimse ,

Lemmy is not 99% memes. I have most meme communities blocked and I never run out of posts on my feed

TrickDacy ,

It's a huge percentage images. Which is what OP specifically mentioned wanting to turn off.

Assman ,
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"I blocked all the memes and now there's no memes"

...okay

glimse ,

"I read what you wrote as a standalone comment instead of as a reply so I ignored all context"

...okay

If the person I replied to was correct in saying that 99% of Lemmy is memes and I have memes blocked, that would mean I am only seeing 1% of posts when I browse. I am saying that if that was true, I would run out of posts quite quickly and that has not been my experience at all. I'd wager it's much closer to 50% memes than 99%

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