It should be possible to put an entire poll in one comment, with machine-readable distinctions between different replies; and poll responses should not interact with pollster karma. (It might be nice if one got a karma point for answering a poll, to incentivize participation, but that’s not so much an elegance matter.)
Polling seems (IMHO) to work very well given the current tech. Unpack “elegant” for me.
It should be possible to put an entire poll in one comment, with machine-readable distinctions between different replies; and poll responses should not interact with pollster karma. (It might be nice if one got a karma point for answering a poll, to incentivize participation, but that’s not so much an elegance matter.)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445039 -- example of how polls work on Hacker News.