What's your favourite genus of penguin?
- Aptenodytes
- Eudyptes
- Eudyptula
- Megadyptes
- Pygoscelis
- Spheniscus
This is a competition thread which ran from 8th Mar 2015 to 14th Mar 2015. View results.
As you may have guessed we now have a #NewFeature that allows you to post simple polls. To start a poll create a new thread, select "Set this thread as a competition" & set the competition type to "Poll". Options are specified as list items in your post which are entered in different ways depending on which composition method you have selected.
Plain text
You can create your list of options manually:
<ol>
<li>option 1</li>
<li>option 2</li>
<li>option 3</li>
</ol>
or
<ul>
<li>option 1</li>
<li>option 2</li>
<li>option 3</li>
</ul>
Or just list your options one per line, select the lot then click the <ol> or <ul> tags in the list of allowed tags which will automatically apply the correct markup. If nothing is selected it will insert the tags required to get you started.
WYSIWYG
Type in your first option on a new line, click the "Insert ordered list" or "Insert unordered list" button (5th & 6th buttons), press enter, type your next option, press enter etc..
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Create an ordered list by starting each line with a number followed by a . eg.
1. option 1
2. option 2
3. option 3
...or create an unordered list starting each line with either a *, + or - eg:
* option 1
* option 2
* option 3
Cast your vote by clicking your preferred option, a green tick will show you which option you have voted for. You can change your vote at any time while the poll is open.
At the end of the poll's duration period Marvin will tot up the votes & post the results.
How do you retract your vote if you later decide you don't want to vote for any of the choices on offer?
Little Paul - - Parent #
Yes, but which colour?
What about Pinguinus, the genus that gave us the penguin name‽
Typical Southern bias, only list the southern penguins - no mention of the northern ones.
Cedric Lackpot - - Parent #
A couple of things :-
* Votes should be toggleable, so I can rescind a vote as well as reposition it. In the picture I have voted for Eudyptula and can no longer vote for nothing.
* The "Select option to vote, Previous unread, Next unread" is bloody confusing - Previous unread and Next unread are not types of penguin!
Screenshot :-
https://imgur.com/7kuC1na
Also, why don't Imgur links embed?
Little Paul - - Parent #
It's a shame img tags aren't in the list of html allowed. Otherwise we could just use https://www.palmnet.me.uk/minipolls
Adding image tags around a url for those who want them is considerably cleaner & easier than extracting a url & fixing mangled image tags from user input!
1. Votes are now toggleable.
2. Yeah, that shouldn't happen. Now sorted.
That imgur link is to a page rather than an image. Images will embed if you use the direct link (2nd option down in the list of embed codes).
https://i.imgur.com/7kuC1na.png
I've heard they taste very fishy but have not cooked one myself so I couldn't state a preference.
Have been meaning to ask my game man about squirrels as I prefer to cook non indigenous or pest species such as muntjack deer or rabbits.
This poll has now ended. The results are:
- Aptenodytes (3 votes)
- Eudyptes (1 vote)
- Eudyptula (2 votes)
- Megadyptes (1 vote)
- Pygoscelis (3 votes)
- Spheniscus (3 votes)
lukeburrage - - Parent #
Why doesn't the original poll get replaces by the results?
Because that would not show up as a new post? Thereby not bringing the close/results to people's attention.
Of course, a first-post-replacement as well as a new results post would work fine, IMO.
Mostly wot Void said, but also I thought it would help the thread tell a story: question is asked first, people discuss the question, results are posted, then people discuss results.
Also if the reader didn't participate in the poll while it was active having the results in a separate post (which more often than not will be off the screen) gives the reader the chance to guess at the results or still make a choice without being influenced by the results. There is a link straight from the OP to the results for those that don't want to read through the thread.