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Voting poll helps! Should dev.to have it?

Maulik on September 29, 2020

Many times, we need to make choice between different technologies, libraries, frameworks, design patterns, algorithms etc... We do research and ge...
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Shunjid Rahman Showrov

I think this is a great idea.

Pros: It will save time of both the participants and the article writer.

Cons: Sometimes people may vote even if they don't have a clear concept over that issue. Thinking over this we may come up with a solution for sure.

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Maulik

Thanks Shunjid,
I have seen this type of feature in many apps, and many of those apps don't show us the current result before voting. Once we vote, it will show the current vote results, so that one won't go with the flow but vote for actual option that he/she thinks would be good.

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Emilie Ma

I think the current discuss and healthydebate tags are more useful - others have touched on the quality of responses, and having polls without, say, a reason field doesn't prompt much discussion either.

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Maulik

Thanks for the response

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Nyior Clement Jr.

A big fan!
This will greatly increase the number of responses one gets on let's say a question. Most times people are busy and sometimes lazy too to give feedback, but doing it with just a click would make things easier.

Yes! Like all solutions, this would come with some drawbacks, but you see it is just going to be an addition to what's already available on dev.to. This will just give users multiple options to pick from

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Maulik

Thanks Nyior

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Michael Harrison

I think it could be a good feature! I'd say you should open the issue on GitHub and see what the reception is like there! (It's a shame you're going to have to read through all these comments to get people's feedback haha!)

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Maulik

Thank you Michael, I'll open this issue on Github repo.

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nikhilmwarrier

Yup!
Really useful...

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Maulik

Thanks for the feedback Nikhil

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nikhilmwarrier

😊

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Maulik

Thanks for the feedback, partially agree with you but if I describe my situation, I sometimes want to answer or want to give my opinion but I don't have time so this feature will make it easy... and I don't think these awesome dev community people will vote without reading or understanding but yes some noise will be there...