Or the people who don’t want to discuss politics deliberately sabotaged this poll, or I irritated a few people enough that they downvoted stuff I created just to punish me. We can come up with explanations all day, but in the end have a limited set of options without simply ending the experiment and declaring it a failure:
Have a second poll and hope it turns out better. (Which seems unlikely.)
Do what the poll nominally suggests, and create the thread.
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The second option has the strong benefit of being a second defacto poll. If the thread works, then the poll’s results are vindicated; if it fails, then the poll’s results are rejected as being biased. I’ve noticed the karma votes for the created post have gone up and down constantly since created, which I’m interpreting as being votes for and against politics being discussed here. The net result, thus far, has been neutral.
Or the people who don’t want to discuss politics deliberately sabotaged this poll, or I irritated a few people enough that they downvoted stuff I created just to punish me. We can come up with explanations all day, but in the end have a limited set of options without simply ending the experiment and declaring it a failure: Have a second poll and hope it turns out better. (Which seems unlikely.) Do what the poll nominally suggests, and create the thread. ?
The second option has the strong benefit of being a second defacto poll. If the thread works, then the poll’s results are vindicated; if it fails, then the poll’s results are rejected as being biased. I’ve noticed the karma votes for the created post have gone up and down constantly since created, which I’m interpreting as being votes for and against politics being discussed here. The net result, thus far, has been neutral.