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To: digital man
whats this comment thing do anyways

whats this comment thing do anyways

Re: polls
By: MRO to Ogg on Mon Sep 14 2020 12:48 pm

On 29/08/2020 5:17 p.m., Digital Man wrote:

1: Yes
2: No
3: Don't Care
4: Not Religious

hey did synchronet get updated to follow the twitlist for
voting?

Yes:
http://cvs.synchro.net/commitlog.ssjs#42094

Oh.. So, these things are a feature of Synchro? On their own
they are quite vacuous: fav color, fav music, etc. Sheesh.

Why not force a section in the poll to illuminate WHY this poll
is being conducted, its relevance, or force the builder to

i dont think this voting feature is very fruitful and i'd like to see it removed in this fashion. maybe convert it into a voting door that uses synchdata and make a separate msg sub for voting results?


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To: MRO
Re: polls
By: MRO to digital man on Mon Sep 14 2020 12:51 pm

i dont think this voting feature is very fruitful and i'd like to see it removed in this fashion. maybe convert it into a voting door that uses synchdata and make a separate msg sub for voting results?

You can disable voting in each sub-board if you want. And I've created a voting door for Synchronet (SlyVote) - If you want polls generally disabled except for a voting door, you could make a local sub-board with voting enabled and use that sub-board with SlyVote.

Nightfox

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